Group seeks inclusion of oil-rich communities in Energy Transition Plan

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“Without natural capital accountability GDP growth is meaningless’
Stock photo of an offshore oil rig“Without natural capital accountability GDP growth is meaningless’

By Elizabeth Adegbesan

A group, Spaces for Change (S4C), has called for the inclusion of oil-rich communities in the nation’s Energy Transition Plan (ETP).

Nigeria’s ETP was developed to realize  the adoption of natural gas as a transition fuel to aid the process of phasing out carbon-polluting fuels like crude oil by 2060.

S4C said findings from its research report show that the ETP neither made arrangements for cleanup, remediation, compensation, and rehabilitation of oil-rich communities nor for addressing the massive environmental damage that has accompanied the country’s protracted dependence on fossil fuels. 

The report titled, “Energy Transition in Nigeria’s Oil-Rich Communities”, was unveiled by S4C in collaboration with Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) and Extractives 360 (E360), with support from Africa Center for Energy Policy…



Source: Vanguard Newspaper