ENVIRONMENTAL ALERT

A FLOATING PRODUCTION, STORAGE AND OFF-LOADING (FPSO) VESSEL IS ABOUT TO BE DEPLOYED ON NIGERIAN TERRITORIAL WATERS

Here is a new dimension of irreversible ecosystem and environmental devastation.

STATISTICS
A Nigerian based Multinational Oil Exploration and Production Company have procured this vessel, capable of processing 225,000 barrels of crude oil daily, described by South Korean Press as a MONSTER. The other name of this vessel is BONGA; designed to be stationed on Nigerian Territorial Waters for continuous oil processing for 20years.

The vessel is 10 (ten) kilometers long and 6 (six) kilometers wide.
The vessel displaces a water depth of 250m-1150m.
The vessel covers on water 1030m
The vessel will be located 20 kilometer offshore
The vessels life expectancy will be 20 years
The vessel has set sail to Nigeria.
(Source: Nigerian Guardian)
We, Environmental Impact Monitor (EIM) an NGO, consider these statistics highly disturbing, as they portend very disastrous consequences for our territorial marine ecosystem, contiguous land, and populace at large.

Nigerians have a right to know the details of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of this monstrous project.

Nigerians, have a right also to decide whether they need a MONSTER at their doorstep.

We ask, where has this type of vessel ever been deployed in the world?. If there has ever been, what were the environmental consequences?

What will be the state of our marine ecosystem, the Niger Delta, the inland creeks and lagoons open to tidal waves and Southern Nigeria after 20 years of continuous oil production and refining right inside the contiguous seas?

Environmental Impact Monitor (EIM) believes that deployment of this type of vessel for the purpose for which it is designed, at our present stage of national development is inimical to the welfare of Nigeria, and hence, is not in our overall collective National Interest.

At our present level, Nigeria is very low on emergency preparedness, pollution monitoring and control capability, environmental risk management, environmental remediation capability, environmental health and safety awareness and strategic preparedness to accommodate the MONSTER. EIM maintains that this project will further aggravate the already worsened and devastated environmental conditions of the Niger Delta ecosystem by turning our territorial waters into another North Sea.

All concerned and patriotic citizens should Hear, think and Ask Questions. We must save our continental waters overall environment from total destruction now! We have a right to live.

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT MONITOR (NGO)

Efobi, O. R. Executive Director
Environmental Impact Monitor
5,Seinde Callisto Crescent,
off Apapa-Oshodi Expressway,
Oshodi.
Tel-234- 01-4933-813,234-0803-3280684[GSM].