Don Tasks FG, Oil Firms On Gas Flaring

As  gas flaring continues
to generate debate among the people, governments at all levels have been charged to seek means to end the issue in the country.
A lecturer with the University of Port Harcourt in Rivers State, Dr Kinika Didia-Ordu, who spoke in an exclusive interview with The Tide last weekend in Port Harcourt, said gas flaring was a dangerous project and should be stopped forthwith.
He said the disadvantages could not be equated with the advantages, thus the need to end it.
Didia-Ordu, regretted that the money which could have bailed the country out of its recent austerity measure, were burnt in the flame in the name of gas flaring.
The don regretted that Nigerian leaders were not sensitive about issues that have direct bearing on the people, saying that it is about time the country began to actualize the benefit of gas.
He was of the view that government at the top are playing games over the issue of gas flaring.
The gas-engineer, hinted that if the gas that is flared in the country on daily basis was converted to solid gas, it will not only reduce the issue of environmental harzard, but will create huge employment opportunities.
He pointed out that most countries of the world now depend on  gas for all kinds of domestic cooking, while faulting the federal government’s plans to purchase cooking stoves for women. He advised that if the money meant for the stove could be diverted as gas project, it would go a long way in addressing the gas flaring challenge.
Further more, he called on multinationals operating in the country to brace up and proffer solution to gas flaring. He wondered why gas flaring would take over the centre stage of the gas industry, while calling on environmental experts in the country, to design a blue print that would enable the federal government to combat the challenge before the middle of 2015.