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Effects of Gas Pollution on the Environment

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O. Olopade
Olopade, Olusoga

Article from: OGEL 4 (2003), in National and International Issues in Natural Gas Development

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The history of gas pollution in Nigeria is as old as that of oil pollution, since associated gas is a component of oil. Gas pollution has been with us since 1956 when oil was discovered in commercial quantity at Oloibiri in the then Yenagoa province of the Niger Delta area. Since that time, billions of standard cubic feet of gas are being flared daily from our oil fields. This is environmental degradation of a monumental proportion. As at today, Nigeria is reported to have the unenviable record of the highest flaring rate in the world. Before October 1999, the country flared about 34 per ...

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