{"id":5513,"date":"2017-07-31T04:02:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T04:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/experts-disagree-with-government-over-the-reviews-of-eia-act\/"},"modified":"2017-07-31T04:02:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T04:02:25","slug":"experts-disagree-with-government-over-the-reviews-of-eia-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/experts-disagree-with-government-over-the-reviews-of-eia-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts disagree with government over the reviews of EIA Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"attachment_149700\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tree-planting.jpg?resize=1280%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/plugins\/ventra-lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif?ssl=1\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tree-planting.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tree-planting-640x360.jpg 640w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tree-planting-1062x598.jpg 1062w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tree-planting-320x180.jpg 320w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tree-planting-281x158.jpg 281w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tree-planting-562x316.jpg 562w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tree-planting-531x299.jpg 531w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tree-planting-600x338.jpg 600w\" class=\"size-full wp-image-149700 lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><noscript><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-149700 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tree-planting.jpg?resize=1280%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tree-planting.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tree-planting-640x360.jpg 640w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tree-planting-1062x598.jpg 1062w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tree-planting-320x180.jpg 320w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tree-planting-281x158.jpg 281w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tree-planting-562x316.jpg 562w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tree-planting-531x299.jpg 531w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tree-planting-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHOTO: google.com\/search<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Experts have expressed discontent over the way and manner the federal government is articulating the 14 guidelines for the review of Environmental Impact Assessment, EIA Act.<\/p>\n<p>They spoke at Validation Workshop on the reviewing Act, warned that the exercise should not be lopsided, void of political undertones so that the proposed amendments\u00a0\u00a0 will meet the yearning of Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>Some experts who talked with The Guardian, maintained, government seem to rush its proposed 15 sectoral guidelines, which three of them are component of environmental study, such as social, biophysical and health.<\/p>\n<p>An Environmental Consultant, Linda Akpami, said there are certain areas that were neglected in the past, which must be corrected; otherwise, the review would be in futility as far as EIA Act is concerned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government may have to revisit the issue of 500 hectares of land, which has been abused by executors of projects, adding, this important document is not for FCT, as some officials may think, but for the entire country\u201d, she explained.<\/p>\n<p>Akpami also submitted that there was no specification on the exercise, stressing that Nigeria may not really have the change that would stand a test of time as well as meet global emerging environmental issues.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. John A. Harry, a Consultant Environmental Chemist, said EIA practice all over the world is a team activity, saying it is almost impossible to envisage a situation where single individual could adequately address the range of issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublic sector EIA enforcement is low because government agencies do not respect the EIA regulatory agencies. They are regarding them as parallel governmental agencies that should be allowed to exercise powers over them,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n<p>He therefore, argued, we have seen various stakeholders, communities, local, international NGOs, even government rising to object to the draft EIA conducted for project and in fact rejecting three EIA\u2019s already maybe because of the international dimension to the project.<\/p>\n<p>Contributing, a Director in Ondo State Ministry of Environment, Mrs. Bola Akinyanmi, noted that there was no clear-cut statement on institutional framework that would conduct EIA in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, there should be no ambiguity in a situation where NGOs conduct the reports on projects without stakeholders and people, and then submit to government for the execution; it should be avoided.<\/p>\n<p>To her, more public enlightenment should be carried out in where the project is located, adding,\u00a0 \u201cI am saying this based on the fact that many Nigerians do not know anything about EIA Act, talkless of knowing the new introduced guidelines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSincerity should be guiding word in the review exercise, which there must be a well defined rules, categorization of projects. These at times always bring disagreement during National Environment Council, NEC, meeting,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled, immediate past Minister of Environment, Amina J.Mohammed, promised that government would make laws that would empower, and sensitize the people on the effects of climate change on environment sector.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a hre=\"http:\/\/guardian.ng\/property\/experts-disagree-with-government-over-the-reviews-of-eia-act\/\"> Guardian <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOTO: google.com\/search Experts have expressed discontent over the way and manner the federal government is articulating &hellip; <a title=\"Experts disagree with government over the reviews of EIA Act\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/experts-disagree-with-government-over-the-reviews-of-eia-act\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Experts disagree with government over the reviews of EIA Act<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[522,41,15307],"class_list":["post-5513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities-in-new-markets","tag-nigeria","tag-property","tag-ulta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tree-planting.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8524,"url":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/experts-task-fg-on-global-practices-in-eia-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":5513,"position":0},"title":"Experts task  FG on global practices in EIA review","author":"Amazing Property","date":"April 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Ikenna Ofoegbu Stakeholders in environmental matters have sought a review of Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Act based on global best practices in order to save lives and secure the environment. 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