10. Conclusions
In our view:
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of Agip gas flares at Ebocha, Rivers State, Niger Delta, March 2004
- Flaring must stop immediately. Its continuation is
not only humanly and environmentally harmful,
but also constitutes a huge source of revenue loss
to the people and government of Nigeria.
- Exploration and new oil field development must
end until facilities are in place for the utilization of
all associated gas.
- Legal obligations must be imposed to require
associated gas to be used at the Bonny LNG Plant
before any further, and in the West African Gas
Pipeline before any, non-associated gas is used.
- A full account should be given by SPDC of how its
flaring was affected by Shell's concealment
strategy over its reserves, including publication of
the full Davis Polk & Wardwell Report.
- All ministerial certificates, if any, that have
purported to allow flaring must be disclosed by
the Big 5 companies and NNPC.
- Ministers issuing flaring certificates, if any, must
disclose how they considered the human rights of
communities before they issued such certificates.
And finally, every employee, and particularly senior management, of the Big 5 companies and NNPC
should visit a flare site and stand next to a flare for as long as they can endure it. As sentient creatures,
they can only have one reaction.
Executive Summary | Introduction
| Section 2 | Section 3
| Section 4 | Section 5
| Section 6 | Section 7
| Section 8 | Section 9
| Conclusions
