Tantita Securities Services Limited has stated that communities in the Niger Niger region can now use their vegetation to generate wealth through carbon capture technology, which is far more safer and more environmentally friendly than crude oil.
According to the Executive Director Operations and Technical, Tantita Securities Services, Capt. Warredi Enisuoh, the company has started sensitising and mobilising Niger Delta communities to forget about crude oil and its attendant ecosystem destruction and embrace a cleaner energy source of wealth creation.
Capt Enisuoh, who stated this while speaking on a sub theme, “Infrastructural Protection,” at the Pan-Ijaw Summit in Yenagoa on Friday, said it was time Niger Delta communities look beyond oil and gas and embraced carbon capture technology.
He says: “You cannot remove social economic problems from security problem. And we are also here to market an idea carbon emissions The way forward, we have a lot of trees in this area, which we can generate a lot of income from.
“There are companies around the world that are ready to partner with region like this on Greener Energy to participate in exchange for green development to participate in industrial development that will not further create carbon emissions and increase global warming that will further affect the health of the people in the region
“That is why we have come here to talk about how the community will not go into the breaking of the pipelines and that there are other sources of income from the environment. The communities are very very rich in mangrove and trees, and one tree alone can absorb about 80 kilograms of Co2 in a year and that’s quite a lot of money.
“If you have thousands of these trees in your community that capture carbon capacity, your community can export it for money or development instead of breaking pipelines that will further degrade the environment, which you cannot use for farming, for fishing, drinking and others.”
On the achievements of the company, he stressed that since they began operations in the Niger Delta, crude production has witnessed a turnaround improvement, as statistics available has shown.
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