The Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project has declared that Ogoniland in Rivers State is now free of illegal artisanal refining sites, following ongoing remediation and environmental clean-up operations in the area.
HYPREP also said it has recorded 90 per cent success in the ongoing mangrove restoration and shoreline remediation in Ogoniland.
Mangrove Restoration Officer for HYPREP, Dr Uche Izuchukwu, disclosed this when the International Working Group on Petroleum Pollution and Just Transition in the Niger Delta visited Ogoniland.
The group was in Ogoni to understudy the ongoing remediation carried out by HYPREP.
Izuchukwu told the delegation that the project recorded reduced incidents due to stakeholder involvement and partnership with the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency.
“Before this project started, we have interacted with artisanal refiners identified in Ogoni. And I can tell you as of today, there is no active artisanal refining site in Ogoni,” he stated.
Izuchukwu also
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