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| Negative Effects of Gas Flaring In Niger Delta, Nigeria: Case Study, Oporoma |
Ozogu Agbe N., Chukwurah N. C., Muhammed Z. A., and Anyim P. B,
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Abstract:
Gas flaring is a combustion device to burn associated, unwanted or excess gases and liquids released during normal or unplanned over pressuring operation in many industrial processes, such as oil gas extraction, refineries, chemical plants, coal industry and landfills. Gas flaring is a significant source of greenhouse gases emissions. It also generates noise, heat and provided large areas uninhabitable. The environmental and health implications were examined in Oporoma community, Niger Delta region as a case study. All investigations and information depict the negative effects of gas flaring on the environment and humans. Gas flaring has impoverished the community where it is practiced, with attendant environmental, economic and health challenges. Reluctance on the part of government and policy makers is also a factor. These difficulties faced by the community from gas flares are a sufficient justification for ending gas flaring practice. Fines by defaulting companies should be so exorbitant so as to deter them. Most of the gases that is being flared can be processed and produced into cooking/domestic gas, and for electricity generation. The time to stop gas flaring is now, especially in the Niger Delta (Oporoma Community).
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