Vanguard
8 Feb 2011
The lead federal government agency in charge of oil spill management in the Nigerian Petroleum Sector, the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA, has dragged the Pipelines and Product Marketing Company Limited, PPMC, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to the Federal High Court, Asaba, Delta state, for refusal to carry out clean-up exercise and declining to pay a One million naira (N1,000,000.00) sanction slammed on her for defaulting.
The PPMC is in the business of installation, maintenance of NNPC pipelines as well as the marketing of its petroleum products in Nigeria
An oil vessel, J.S. Amazing belonging to the defendant in the matter, PPMC, had in June 2009 capsized along the PPMC jetty at Ijala and discharged its content (LPFO) into the Warri river that polluted several coastal communities that includes Ugbodede and affected their economic life line negatively.
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