Niger Delta
HOMEF Develops Monitoring Guide For Extractive Industries
Health of Mother Earth
Foundation (HOMEF), an environmental group says it has developed a resource material for environmental monitoring and reporting for use in Niger Delta Communities.
Executive Director of HOMEF Rev. Nnimmo Bassey, who disclosed this said that the resource material was developed to assist communities that host oil and extractive industry.
The Community Monitoring Guide which is published as a handbook illustrates the procedures and actions required to safeguard the environment from the activities of oil exploration and other mining activities.
Bassey explained that the Community Monitoring Guide was developed by HOMEF after extensive research, field visits and consultations with Niger Delta communities in a forum known as Community Dialogues.
He said that the foundation had commenced a capacity building project aimed at training communities to monitor their environments and report any breach of existing laws on the environment.
According to Bassey, the Non Governmental Organiation (NGO) conducted a workshop on Community Resilience for Environmental Monitoring and Reporting for Egi Communities in Rivers.
He said that volunteers who pledged to serve as Ecological Defenders participated in the training programme.
“The participants pledged to carry out monitoring activities related to petroleum resources extraction activities in Egi land, to identify environmentally negative and positive of oil company operations in Egi land.
“They agreed to insist on and ensure compliance with all relevant national and international environmental laws and standards.
“They also resolved to insist on environmental impact assessment and environmental plans to limit the impacts occasioned by extractive activities in Egi land.
”The trainees are to effectively create awareness and train others for environmental monitoring and protection in communities where extractive activities are carried out,” Nnimmo said
The Environmentalist explained that the training workshop was in part the NGO’s effort to build community capacity to monitor and report on incidents in their environment.
He said that HOMEF had held similar training at Bori Ogoni in October 2015 and would have more preparatory to the cleanup process promised by the Federal Government in line with the UNEP report.
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