The Enugu State government says the coal mining firm has mined and evacuated coal from the site since February 2022 without any payments.
The Enugu State government says the coal mining firm has mined and evacuated coal from the site since February 2022 without any payments or recourse whatsoever to the state government.Government has directed a coal mining firm, Milhouse Energy Services Limited, located in the state to pay N1 billion into the Enugu State Environmental Remediation Trust Fund.
The commissioner said the company had mined and evacuated coal from the site since February 2022 without any payments or recourse whatsoever to the state government. He added that the sealing included those without environmental impact certification and remediation plans. According to him, the agreement would see the company pay the sum of N1 billion for environmental remediation while also paying the sum of N100,000 as tax per truckload of coal evacuated from the site.
“We will not accept that people will enter our state and start carting away our resources without recourse to the Enugu State Government.
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