What a shame! A leakage from Agip’s Idu Well 3, located in Egbebiri area
of Biseni in Yenagoa Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, is currently
discharging crude into the environment, thus causing the entire community and its environs uncontrollable tears, pains, agonies and untold hardship, this SHOWBIZPLUS can authoritatively reveal.
A News Agency of Nigeria
correspondent who visited the spill site on Tuesday, reports that the well is
spewing crude oil in gaseous form which liquefies and settles on the ground.
The pungent smell of the gaseous
discharge has forced road constructions workers to pull out of site.
The construction workers were seen
removing their personal effects from the earth moving machinery while they
discussed the oil and gas leak.
“This leakage has made this whole
area very unsafe; the smell of the gas is very poisonous and I cannot continue
to expose my workers to it.
“We have to suspend work until
something is done about the oil and gas discharge,” the site Supervisor who
wished to be anonymous said.
A surveillance staff from the oil
firm who was found at the site, said that the leak was reported on Feb. 7 but
expressed regret that nothing had been done to stop the leak.
It was observed that the oil
sediments collects into a pool and flows into a nearby pit where remnants of an
earlier spill awaited recovery and clean up.
Efforts to get the comments of
Agip’s Spokesman, Mr Tajudeen Adigun, on the development, were unsuccessful, as
he did not respond to the calls or text messages sent to his mobile phone.
2 comments:
this is really sad
this what we suffer in Bayelsa
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