You Have No Respect!

The Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) has been accused by some landlords in its memorandum of understanding of ignoring the Isoko native laws and customs, as applicable to Oleh community, and urged the Ministry of Environment to correct the MoU, which had restrained them from dealing directly with Agip. Read more here: https://guardian.ng/news/landlords-in-isokocommunity-disagree-over-mou-with-agip/

Send The Popo Get Polluted

The University of Cape Town chemical engineer Prof Cyril O Connor as well as several other senior scientists have warned the South Africa’s government of a massive pollution clean-up bill unless it sets up a team of properly skilled inspectors to monitor and police the emerging shale gas fracking industry on a massive chunk of land covering almost 172,000km2 of the Karoo. Read more here: https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2017-09-01-experts-want-a-fracking-police-force-if-drilling-goes-ahead-in-sa/

Grown But Immature

Despite witnessing tremendous growth year-on-year since the Jubilee oilfield was discovered in 2007 and production started in 2010, domestic companies in the oil and gas industry in Ghana are still struggling with limited experience in the field as well as lacking in the technical know-how offshore. Read more here: https://mareeg.com/oil-and-gas-in-ghana/

Affordable Transformation

Lumos Nigeria Chief Executive Officer Mr. Yuri Tsitrinbaum has said with confidence that its mobile solar revolution will transform Nigeria’s small-business economy which provides customers with reliable, clean, affordable solar electricity with a very reasonable cost of costs are as low as N150 per day, or just N4,500 per month compared to N500 to N1,000 per day on alternative electricity sources that are expensive, unreliable and dirty. Read more here: http://thenationonlineng.net/off-grid-solar-ll-transform-businesses/

Intimidating But Friendly

Johannesburg which is considered South Africa’s most populous and intimidating city has been declared the country’s most environmentally friendly metro area in an annual government-run competition that saw the Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality given R3.5 Million to fund projects that help manage the city’s waste, build greener economy, reduce the effects of climate change, and create job opportunities. Read more here: https://qz.com/1066098/south-africas-most-populous-and-intimidating-city-has-been-named-its-most-environmentally-friendly/

The Goose That Lays The Golden Egg

The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, at a ceremony recently stated that the petroleum and gas Industry is not conducive for the creation of jobs and must focus more on generating money to be invested in other job-creating sectors such as agriculture. Read more here: https://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2017/09/01/petroleum-and-gas-industry-must-provide-capital-for-investment-in-job-creating-sectors-minister/