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FG, IMO Hold W/shop on Oil Spill By Bukola Akande The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in collaboration with the Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Transport is organising a workshop in its efforts to build a comprehensive plan that will enable effective implementation in case of any oil spill incidence in the oil vast field areas of the country. According to press release from the National Maritime Authority, the plan is to enlighten people on how to reduce to minimal level, any negative impact of oil spill on the marine and coastal environment. In its commitment to safer shipping and cleaner oceans, the IMO accepts the need to collaborate with the Nigeria government in order to enhance it strategic plan. IMO recognizes the crucial economic status accorded Nigeria's oil and the industry's intertwined exploitative activity within the Maritime world. In its commitment to safer shipping and cleaner oceans, the IMO accepts the need to collaborate with the Nigeria government in order to enhance it strategic plan. Similar workshop held during the first phase of the national Oil Spill Contingency Plan which took place in Lagos in 2000, the forthcoming Calabar July 2004 experience is expected to be its concluding phase. The workshop, slated for Calabar will afford all stakeholders the opportunity to actively participate in the task of containing marine pollution and oil-spill related matters. Its plan to pull together 50 participants from the Maritime, Oil and Gas industry, experts from the organized private sector, also International Agencies and many Government establishments with vaster interest in marine pollution. Participants are drawn from a wide-base of technically and financially involved organisations, who are expected to follow-up on the strategies, design and implementation of the contingency incudes: Ministries of Petroleum, Environment, Finance, Department of Fisheries, Defense, industry, Internal Affairs, Water Resources, Power and Steel, NNPC, DPR, NAPIMS, Oil companies, Embassies and NGO's. The workshop slated for next week. Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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