Following an oil spillage in its facilities in Ayarabele and Kalaba communities in the Orkordia Clan of Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa, the state government has ordered the closure of an oil facility belonging to the Nigeria AGIP Oil Company, a subsidiary of the Italian oil giant, ENI Spa.
The state government in a statement by the Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Inuro Wills, stated that the decision to order the closure was based on the need to allow a special investigative team to tackle the spill from the facility.
Wills stressed that the closure and subsequent investigation was triggered by the intolerable frequency of oil and gas spillage in the state and “the grave consequences it portends for the people and communities has necessitated the setting up of the team.
“Following the recent gas spillages, which occurred on September 4 at a facility operated by the NAOC in the two communities, the ministry has asked the company to temporarily shut down operations in the facility.”
Meanwhile, the state government has announced that a meeting between the leadership of the impacted communities, the officials of the state government and the NAOC have been fixed to discuss the incidence of spillage, “to determine to use the recent Ayamabele and Kalaba gas spill to signal the start of the state government programme of rapid and sustained environmental protection and enforcement.”
SOURCE; http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/bayelsa-govt-orders-agip-to-shut-down-facility-over-spill/189279/
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