Expert Wants End To Gas Flaring In Nigeria

As gas flaring continues
to generate  debate among stakeholders in the country, the three tiers government and oil  and gas companies have been urged to ensure its end in Nigeria.
A petroleum engineer, Engr  Amos Igwe who spoke in an interview with newsmen at the weekend, said gas flaring was dangerous to the environment  which  ought to be stopped.
He said the disadvantages could not be equated  with its advantages adding that it was a dangerous practice.
Igwe regretted that the  money which could have bailed the country out from its present economic reality, were up in flame in the name of gas flaring.
The petroleum expert regretted that the country’s leaders were insensitive  about the issue,  saying that the  federal government should also address the issue.
He called on those  with expert knowledge on gas business to rise upto the occasion  and challenge the federal government and its aquecies  on the need to end the ugly trend.
According to him, most countries of the world now depend on gas for all kinds of  demostic cooking thereby saving several millions of money for their nations.
He maintained that if the federal government could be sincere with its plans to end gas flaring,  it will come to be in the nearest future.
Further more, he explained that if the gas that was flared in the country was converted to solid gas, it would go a long way in settling the challenge of unemployment.
He noted that the economic waste associated with the project (gas flaring) was part of the reasons for the handship in the Niger Delta states.
Meanwhile, he has tasked  the government on the need to declare a state of emergency in that  sector and do the needful in order to safeguard the environment.