BENIN CITY- The Federal Ministry of Environment, Housing and Urban Development’s Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Review Panel, has held a stakeholders meeting on the proposed Ammonia-Urea Plant Project by Fertafric Petrochemical Company, at Ologbo in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State.
Speaking on behalf of the Minister of Environment, Housing and Urban Development, Dr. N.B. Eke, said the aim of the meeting was to assure the people that the Fertafric project would adhere strictly to the Environmental Impact Assessment by taking the host community into consideration.
He then urged the people of Ologbo to assist the Fertafric project, as it would have a lot of positive effects on the lives of the people.
Fertafric project is conceived as a mid-stream, gas-based Fertilizer plant with the objective to construct and operate four ammonia-urea production trains each, with a nominal capacity for 1,200 MTPD of ammonia and 1,925 MTPD of urea.
The project which would be sited at Ologbo in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo would be built by the best engineering companies from Europe and would use cutting edge technology in line with world class standard.
It will also have major positive environmental impact through the consumption of natural gas as the raw materials for the project, thus reducing gas flaring in the Niger-Delta as well as enhance Edo State and Nigeria’s desire for food security.
At the meeting were leaders, elders and people of Ologbo community.
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