FG To Begin Emissions Control Programme January 1, 2019

In a bid to enforce environmental laws, the Federal Government has
concluded arrangements to begin implementation of national generator
emissions control programme from January 1, 2019.

Director
General, National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement
Agency (NESREA), Dr. Lawrence Anukam, disclosed this while commissioning
the equipment in Abuja. He lamented that indiscriminate use of
generators for domestic and industrial power supply increases
concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Anukam noted
that population growth and economic activities have escalated
proliferation of industries, use of vehicles and generators, which has
led to accelerated air pollution globally.

“Atmospheric pollution
is gradually becoming a serious menace in Nigerian cities, especially
in metropolitan areas where the use of generators for alternative source
of power supply is higher,” he said.

According to him, Nigeria
has pledged to reduce its greenhouse emissions by 20 per cent
conditionally and 45 per cent unconditionally. Anukam, therefore,
stressed that the emissions control programme is a strategy to
significantly reduce pollutants from generators, adding that it would
involve periodic testing.He restated that the implementation of
emissions reduction was conceived as a strategy to address pollution and
other environmental issues.