ENVIRONMENT

Renewables will be the driving force that expands the Nigerian and other African countries’ electricity sector this decade, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has shown in its ‘Africa Energy Outlook 2022’ The IEA in the new report, said Africa’s rich renewable resources, also offer huge potential to produce green hydrogen, with potential production equaling the continent’s entire current energy demand, ...

The Managing Director, Chevron Nigeria Ltd., Mr Richard Kennedy, says that human behaviour is critical to the preservation and conservation of the environment for a better future. Kennedy said this at the 20th edition of Chief Lawal Edu’s memorial lecture organised by the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) in Lagos. The theme of the event powered by Chevron was: “Only One ...

The House of Representatives Committee on Host Communities has assured that the communities affected by oil spillage and explosion in Awoye, in Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo would be compensated and ensure environmental justice for the people of the area. The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Host Communities, Dumnamene Dekor, gave the assurance in Awoye, Ondo state, against ...

A Russian Black Sea oil terminal used to process exports from Kazakhstan had been ordered to shut down operations for 30 days by a Russian court. The court said the stoppage was necessary to prevent possible environmental damage, news agency Interfax reported late on Tuesday. Kazakhstan, Russia’s Central Asian neighbour and an ex-Soviet republic, had butted heads with Moscow since ...

Nigeria recently updated its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). A statement from the Presidency said President Muhammadu Buhari revealed the update of county’s NDC at a virtual meeting hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden. The NDC is a country-by-country climate change action plan commitment to cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and ...

The Supreme Court of the United States has reduced the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ability to reduce the carbon output of existing power plants, a blow to the Biden administration’s plans for combating climate change. The ruling infuriated President Joe Biden and environmentalists, who said it raised formidable obstacles to the United States meeting its climate aims, including the president’s ...

House of Representatives had mandated its Committees on Petroleum Resources (Upstream) and Environment to investigate the actual cause of the oil leaks at OML 18, OML 29 and OML 63 and abandoned wells in Niger Delta. The Committees were also saddled with the responsibility of determining the magnitude, scope, and effect of the leaks on affected host communities, examine the ...

With just a few days to go before the G7 Summit in Germany, activists consider it deeply worrying that several G7 countries, including Germany – the G7 host itself, are going on a global shopping spree for fossil gas and reverting to powering up coal plants as gas supply from Russia dwindles. “The G7 must under no circumstances water down ...

………..by Chiamaka Ndubuwa………..even while Nigeria stay focused on Gas as Transition Energy…… Rosario Osobase, Head Commercial Teranis Nigeria limited, a steel production company has said that there is the need for Nigeria to create a pathway to green hydrogen energy even as the country has a focus on gas as it’s transition energy. Osobase maintained that Nigeria”s focus on gas ...

…………by Amaka Ndubuwa……….. African women are now positioning to champion the production and the increase of green hydrogen which requires vast renewable energy usage. The production of renewables by women will be for both domestic market and export to European countries for the next couple of years ahead. This is because the current global energy transition campaign presents a unique ...