A film about gas flaring in Nigeria.
Shell explains how they tackle gas flaring in a recent article titled “The elusive goal to stop flares”. Shell has been saying that the problem with stopping flaring in Nigeria is that the Nigerian government has failed to fund the huge investments required to collect the gas. Now it seems that won’t happen. Instead they hope that the investments will be subsidised by the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto protocol, which, according to Shell “…provides
additional incentives to cut flaring by providing credits for
carbon-reduction that can be sold on the emissions trading market”. Will we have to pay the worlds second most profitable company to stop violating the law?
Do you want to see the gas flares? Most of them are clearly visible in Google Earth. The NGDC/STP provides kmz files showing the locations of the flares they have identified country by country. Open the Nigeria layer, zoom in on the flares and switch off the overlay and you get an idea of the scale of flaring in the Niger Delta.
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