An oil spillage has been reported in Okay-Dere neighborhood, Gokana Native Authorities Space of Rivers State.
The Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre, YEAC-Nigeria, by way of its Crude Oil Spill Alert System (COSAS), reported that the spillage occurred on January 3, 2024, on the PPMC pipeline pumping crude to the Port Harcourt Refinery.
Whereas the neighborhood blamed tools failure for the spillage, the Nationwide Oil Spill Detection and Response Company, NOSDRA, has but to conduct a Joint Investigation Go to, JIV.
The spill reportedly occurred on a ruptured a part of the pipeline that spilt crude into the setting in the neighborhood about 17 years in the past and was repaired however not clamped.
In line with YEAC-Nigeria, the Okay-Dere neighborhood has stopped the PPMC from fixing the spill level, pending a JIV by NOSDRA.
It added that the corporate has quickly stopped the spill with a cement barricade to allow it to proceed the transportation of crude wanted for the check run of the Port Harcourt refinery, pending when necessities are met and anticipated everlasting repairs are achieved on the spill level.
The Govt Director of YEAC-Nigeria, Fyneface Dumnamene Fyneface, in an announcement, referred to as on NOSDRA to “instantly perform JIV on the power to find out the reason for the spill and invoke related sections of the Petroleum Trade Act (2021) within the circumstances.”