NNPC Reiterates Commitment to Environment-Friendly Policies

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has expressed its determination to initiate and sustain policies that are environment- friendly through the adoption of state-of-the-art technologies and upgrade of its production facilities.
The Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Engr. Andrew Yakubu, stated this Thursday at an organized by the Group Health Safety and Environment Department to commemorate the 2014 World Environment Day with the theme ‘Raise Your Voice, Not the Sea Level’ at the NNPC Towers, Abuja.
Engr. Yakubu noted that the NNPC as a responsible corporate citizen has deployed strategies to ensure discontinuation of harmful and unsafe chemicals to environments where its oil facilities are located.
“NNPC has reduced routine gas flaring from over 30% to about 11% in the last three years. We are pursuing renewable energy development in line with the Kyoto Protocol. We are ensuring pollution control and swift remediation of impacted site whenever they occur,” The GMD enumerated.
The NNPC helmsman called on Nigerians to collectively address the issues of climate change and strengthen their resolve towards tree planting that will make the environment a better place for sustainable development.
He observed that the NNPC as a major player in the Oil and Gas Industry has raised Health Safety and Environment standards, stressing that the event reaffirmed the Corporation’s commitment to staff well-being, safety at work place and environmental protection.
Delivering a paper with the topic ‘Climate Change: It is Time for Action,’ Dr. Engobo Emeseh, a guest lecturer from the United Kingdom, said climate change was the highest security risk confronting the contemporary society which has led to draught, flooding and famine in Nigeria and the rest of Africa.
She implored the NNPC and other organizations to embark on operations that are environment-friendly, noting that if effects of climate change were not mitigated, the water level would rise and submerge some of the installations of the Corporation.
The World Environment Day (WED) was established as an annual event in 1972 by the United Nations General Assembly to drive, and continuously promote global positive environmental action.