Environment
Expert Calls For Sanction Against Gas Flaring Firms
An environmentalist, Miss Blessing Digbani, has called for sanctions against gas flaring companies in the Niger Delta.
Digbani who spoke on the effect of climate change in an interview with The Tide in Port Harcourt particularly called for the application of the pollution pay principle to punish companies and individuals flaring gases in the region.
She said companies and individuals contributing to climate change in the region should be made to pay for their actions.
“The government should apply the polluters pay principles to ensure that industries and individuals whose activities pollute the environment pay for their action.
“This is the only way to compel them to reduce the gas emission into the atmosphere.”
The activist who said climate change is real, urged for a sensitisation programme on the effect of climate change in the Niger Delta.
The activist also called on governments to initiate programmes that will absorbed the teeming number of youths involved in illegal oil bunkering on the region.
By: Amina Ngoma