Many Nigerians with critical interest had hitherto believed that the advent of Nigeria’s Petroleum Industry Act, 2021, arguably the most audacious attempt to overhaul the petroleum sector, will solve the real and imagined challenges in the nation’s petroleum sector, and turn the Niger Delta region, particularly host communities, to a zone of peace in their relationship with crude oil prospecting and exploration companies.
However, facts have since emerged that instead of providing the legal, governance, regulatory and fiscal framework for the petroleum industry and the host communities, the PIA has contrary to expectation become a first line of conflict between crude oil prospecting, exploration companies and their host communities. Like other Acts that guided crude oil production in the past, PIA has similarly become a toothless bulldog that neither bites nor barks.
Entitled ‘14-day ultimatum to implement chapter three of PIA in Tsekelewu host community and bloc of communities by Conoil Producing Ltd at OML 103’, the petition/ultimatum dated December 30, 2022, signed by the President-General of the Tsekelewu Development Association, Dr Bright Abulu, and the spokesman of the association, Mr Christmas Ukagha, and addressed to the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Conoil Producing Limited, among other things, lamented that they adopted the option...
A tour by boat of creeks and coastal communities of Warri South-West and Warri North Local Government Areas of Delta state will reveal that the much-anticipated end in sight of gas flaring is actually not in sight. In the same manner, a journey by road from Warri via Eku-Abraka to Agbor, and another road trip from Warri through Ughelle down to Ogwuashi Ukwu in Anoicha Local Government of the state shows an environment where people cannot properly breathe as it is littered by gas flaring points.
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