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