Gas Flaring: Environmentalist Wants Use Of Turbines

An expert on
environment, Mr Monday Francis-Amona, has suggested the use of gas turbines to flare gas in the Niger Delta region.
Francis-Amona told newsmen on Thursday in Warri, that the development would ease the harmful effect of gas on the people, environment and the ecosystem.
The expert, who is also the Leader/Coordinator, All Communities affected by Shell Bonga Oil Spill in the Niger Delta, said that gas flaring could be of economic value when properly channeled, adding that the use of gas turbines could provide electricity to large communities where gas flaring occurred.
“The gas flared by the oil multinationals could be converted into electricity with the aid of gas turbines and serve the communities where the gas is flared. “Gas flaring can affect the health of the host communities, the soil, the atmosphere, the animals on the surface of the soil and the aquatics.
“Gas flaring is dangerous, he said and noted that the emission that comes out of it has a lot of effects in different ways.”
The environmentalist urged people living in places where gas is being flared, to always take safety precautions and do regular medical checks.
He also appealed to the Federal Government to enact a law that would end gas flaring in the country.