Activities of the oil pipeline vandals are negatively affecting the Nigeria’s environment and the economy, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Maikanti Baru, has said.
Mr Baru, therefore appealed to the vandals to desist from such reprehensible activity in the interest of the country, in a statement on Friday by the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of NNPC, Ndu Ughamadu, said.
The GMD, who spoke while receiving a delegation of the Nigerian Environmental Society, NES, on a business meeting at NNPC Towers in Abuja, said petroleum pipeline pulverization presented a loss-loss scenario for the vandal, the environment and the economy.
Mr said the NNPC’s commitment to best industry standards in Health Safety and the Environment, (HSE), noting that the Corporation does not embark on any project without a duly certified Environment Impact Assessment, EIA, report.
“All our projects also go through commissioning and decommissioning and we do it in accordance with prevailing world standards and our environmental practices are in line with the latest International Standard Organization, ISO, specification,’’ he said.
