Sentences with phrase «of oil spillages»

ABUJA — President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, in Nairobi, Kenya, said that non-clean up of oil spillages in the Niger Delta especially in Ogoniland, was responsible for the militancy the region witnessed in times past.

President Muhammadu Buhari has received knocks for his decision to cancel his trip to Ogoniland to flag off the cleaning up of the area after series of oil spillages that had degraded the environment.

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«The devastation caused by oil spillage has destroyed many lives and livelihoods and is clearly one of the reasons why many people in that region lost faith in Government and resorted to the many criminal activities we are seeing in the region today.

«Apart from the disruption of normal oil flow across the pipelines and loss in revenue, this economic crime has on many occasions resulted in deadly fire and oil spillage that have claimed many lives and damage to the environment in several communities.

The case of the current oil spillage in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State should not be given graveyard silence, less the Government may be inviting the wrath of the people.»

Others are oil spillage and its impact on Niger Delta fishing communities, piracy and banditry, agricultural research institutions, extension services and the menace of smuggling.

NAN also recalls that the oil producing areas of Akwa Ibom State had witnessed over three major oil spillages from ExxonMobil facility in 2016.

Udofia said the community observed the oil spillage on the shoreline (Eastern part of Ibeno) on Wednesday.

He decried the nonchalant attitude of the oil giant towards the community as regards oil spillage and other environmental hazards from the company.

Three communities in the Niger Delta region, Abacheke, Ugada and Etwkuru, all of Egbema in Ohaji / Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State, have lamented shortage of food due to the devastation of their farmlands by oil spillages.

Supporters argue the pipeline will boost the economy, while environmentalists say there could be spillages and that it will encourage the exploitation of tar sands oil, which emits more CO2 than regular oil.

Examples of this plan include a no touch policy through to the construction of a snorkelling and diving pontoon which is powered by dry cell batteries rather than a generator which eliminates noise pollution, fumes and the possibility of a fuel and oil spillage.

Automobile parts are scattered about and the site is complete with plastic pipes seeping what appear to be chemicals and oil, and other such industrial spillages, but are made of coloured acrylic gel.

It's not based on a numerical model of how oil would likely move and disperse if a well off Delaware really did have a major problem; that's a function of wind, tide, current, the properties of the oil, the rate and quantity of spillage, and of course the effectiveness of our efforts to contain the oil in such an incident.

Ignoring the huge environmental impact of exploration, spillages, refining and usage of oil for a second... We have to import vast amounts of oil from all over the world, some from particularly unstable areas, at a high financial cost.

But due to legal guidelines that fail to define diluted bitumen — the substance that inundated Mayflower — as oil, the corporation may not be required to contribute to the federal government's oil spillage cleanup fund — making their donations pocket change in comparison to the cost of contributing to the cleanup fund.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces a no - fly zone over the Mayflower oil spill, igniting speculation that ExxonMobil is trying to curb press coverage of the spillage.