DICKSON ADVOCATES STAKEHOLDERS MEETING ON ENVIRONMENT

-       -  Bayelsa State Gov., Seriake Dickson, has urged the Federal Ministry of Environment to convene a stakeholders meeting to holistically address the lapses inherent in the operations of multi-national oil companies in the Nigeria Delta..

-      - The meeting should have representative of the govt., community leaders, youths, security agencies, oil companies and the legislature

-     -   Gov. Dickson made the suggestion when a delegation led by the minister of environment, Amina Mohammed and the minister of state in that ministry; Ibrahim Jibril, paid him a courtesy visit in Govt. House, Yenagoa.

-      -    He said some of the oil companies operating in the Niger Delta were exploiting the situation by creating double standards concerning issues of remediation of the environment and payment of compensation for oil spillage arising from their exploration activities.

       CULLED FROM THE PIONEER.