Sen. Ned Nwoko, , and Senate Vice Chairman on Environment, has disclosed that the Senate was resolute in addressing environmental degradation in the country.He noted that the major issue of environmental degradation was erosion which hugely affected his home state, Delta, particularly the North Senatorial District.
“The spillage, when Navy and Air Force personnel bomb illegal crude vessels and the spillage that comes from such destruction, or even when our joint task forces, you know, seek to stop illegal refining by some locals.”“We have done some compilations of such sites and they have been put in the next budget to address them as a matter of urgency because some lives are threatened, homes are threatened, some villages are cut off.
“So if we don’t have the money to complete the dam that was already started some years ago up north, this dam was meant to accommodate the spilled water from the Cameroonian dams. “Really, you can’t get gas flaring in America, or Canada or in Romania, or some other oil producing communities in the West because they must comply with pollution levels acceptable laws as stipulated by WHO and other such bodies.