WED: Society Urges For End To Gas Flaring

The Rivers State chapter of the Nigerian Environmental Society (NES), yesterday joined the rest of the world to mark the 2022 world Environment Day with a call on both the state and federal governments. to evolve policies that will end gas flaring in the country by 2030.
The world environment day is an annual event by the United Nations to create awareness against acts that might likely destroy the environment.
The world environment day was first celebrated in 1974 and incidentally the theme for that celebration was the same for this year which is only one Earth.
The host country for this year’s celebration was Sweden.
Speaking during a road show in Port Harcourt,  president, Nigerian Environmental Society Rivers State, Sir Daminabo Amos Atuboyedia said gas flaring should end by 2030 in the country.
Atuboyedia, also called on the government to fast track the cleanup of ogoniland.
He said government should create enabling environment for people to learn the act of   waste recycling, stressing that there are companies in Rivers state that deal on the recycling of waste.
Atuboyedia said the road show was to sensitise the public to desist from acts that will pollute the environment.
He listed some of these acts to include the indiscriminate dumping of refuse as well as dumping of refuse into drainages.
Also speaking, the chairperson, organizing committed Engr.Idaeresoari H.Ateke, said the society intends to take the sensitisation to some schools in the state with a view to educating children on the need to live in harmony with the environment.
She listed some of the schools to be visited to include, Government Girls Secondary School, Rumuokwuta and Community Secondary school ,Abuloma.
Idaeresoari also urged the public to avoid some unfriendly environmental activities such as bush burning, defforestation and illegal oil bunkering..
According to her,”we need to keep the environment for future generation.we must live in harmony with each other and should desist from dumping into gutters’’she said.
She said the society was embarking on the road show to sensitise the people against actions that were dangerous to the environment.
Also speaking a member of the planning committee, Dr Vivian Ozoekwe, said human activities have caused the fast depletion of the ozone layer,thereby causing climate change.

She said  If people refuse to change their habit the Earth will one day cease to exist.

She called for a halt to kpofire activities aswellas bush burning.

Ozoekwe also cautioned against the indiscriminate dumping of refuse as well as dumping of refuse into gutters as it can lead to flooding.