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allAfrica: African news and information for a global audience ... Certainly, the flaring from hundreds of well heads spread around the oil producing communities constitutes health hazards. Although the oil companies contest it, it is widely believed that gas flaring causes acid rain which damages crops and vegetation.
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allafrica.com/stories/200912210687.html
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Nigeria is one of the biggest gas flarers, in spite of the associated environmental hazards of gas flaring. The government is, however, working to achieve a target of zero flares in the near future.
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www.nlng.com/NLNGnew/environment/NLNG+and+Gas+Reserves....
www.nlng.com/NLNGnew/environment/NLNG+and+Gas+Reserves.htm
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Home » Hazards ... Emissions of CO2 by human activities, including fossil fuel burning, cement production, and gas flaring, amount to about 27 billion tonnes per year (30 billion tons) [ ( Marland, et al., 2006) - The reference gives the amount of released carbon (C), rather than CO2, through 2003.].
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volcanoes.usgs.gov/hazards/gas/index.php
volcanoes.usgs.gov/hazards/gas/index.php
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The resultant effects of gas flaring are the damaging effect of the environment due to acid rain formation, ... Gas being flare into atmosphere is one of such indiscriminate discharge. Petroleum industry operation is characterized by sets of hazards (Onosode, 1996). The nature and magnitude of these hazards are dependent...
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lejpt.academicdirect.org/A06/29_42.htm
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We meet people whose survival is acutely threatened by the loss of farmland, fishing and drinking water and the health hazards of gas flaring.
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intercontinentalcry.org/poison-fire-in-the-niger-delta/
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Background to the paper. ... The Environmental Effect of Gas Flaring. ... Flaring of natural gas has also been identified as having negative impact on surrounding vegetation. Isiche and Stanford 1976, pp 177-187.
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www.waado.org/Environment/PetrolPolution/EnvEconomics.h...
www.waado.org/Environment/PetrolPolution/EnvEconomics.htm
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Concisely, gas flaring is the complex and the un-scientific burning, emitting of excess hydrocarbons gathered in an oil gas production flow ... Other health hazards and effects associated to gas flaring and oil pollution includes; increased environmental temperature, heat-wave/mental heat and of course global warming.
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www.ogbakingdom.com/GASFLARINGIMPLICATIONS5.htm
www.ogbakingdom.com/GASFLARINGIMPLICATIONS5.htm
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The Guardian Newspapaers Website ... Sponsor of the bill and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Gas, Osita Izunaso, had during the debate in July insisted that the Senate decision was aimed at stopping environmental hazards posed by gas flaring, reducing health hazards and minimising economic wastage.
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www.ngrguardiannews.com/news/article05/indexn3_html?pda...
www.ngrguardiannews.com/news/article05/indexn3_html?pdate=071209&ptitle=Dangers%20of%20cutting%20gas%20flaring,%20by%20minister&cpdate=293009
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The Niger Delta Region is the host of Multinational oil and gas companies operating in Nigeria. It supplies about 90 percent of crude oil and gas resources, which form the flank of the Nigeria’s mono ... But what has added a dangerous dimension to all these hazards is gas flaring and frequent oil spillages resulting...
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www.nigerdeltacongress.com/carticles/campaign_against_o...
www.nigerdeltacongress.com/carticles/campaign_against_oceanification.htm
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