Stakeholders in Nigeria’s extractive sector have raised concerns over the human and environmental consequences of methane emissions and gas flaring in the Niger Delta, warning that the country’s ambition to expand gas production could come at a heavy cost if stronger accountability and enforcement mechanisms are not put in place.
The concerns were raised on Tuesday during a webinar titled “Leveraging Media Storytelling to Strengthen Accountability and Enforcement on Methane Emissions,” organised as part of an advocacy campaign to amplify Flaring Lives, a documentary that exposes the human cost of methane emissions in Nigeria’s oil-producing communities.
The documentary, co-produced by Policy Alert and We The People, with support from the Natural Resource Governance Institute, chronicles the environmental, health and socio-economic impacts of decades of gas flaring and methane emissions on residents of the Niger Delta.
Speaking during the virtual event, the Country Manager of the Natural Resource Governance Institute, Tengi
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