Worried by the perennial negative impact of gas flares on their health, environment and economy, women from the oil producing communities of Ibeno and Esit Eket in Akwa Ibom State on Wednesday, signed a declaration for the international oil companies to stop gas flares in their communities. During a Town Hall meeting tagged 'Strategies to
End Gas Flaring in Akwa Ibom,' organized by Policy Alert in collaboration with Global Green Grant funds and attended by government officials and stakeholders, the women took a stand against gas flaring by signing a declaration calling on International Oil Companies to cease this practice in their communities.
Expressing dissatisfaction with the Nigerian government's inability to meet previous gas flare-out targets, despite currently striving towards a 2030 deadline as a signatory to the Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership, the women called for a review of the Petroleum Industry Act 2021.
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