CSOs demand just energy transition as major oil coys hold AGMs

to engage the investors and government currently supporting Shell, Total Energies, Exxon Mobil and other oil companies in Nigeria.

The group demanded that Oil companies including Shell, Exxon Mobil and Chevron should take responsibility for loss and damage in the Niger Delta as recommended by COP27.

Other civil society leaders at the meeting were; Mr. Edem Edem, Green Concern for Development, and Ms. Inyingi Irimagha, Gender and Development Action, (GADA).

This year’s PAGM which is the second in the series had in attendance Sixty-seven participants across Nigeria including the Niger Delta region and other emerging oil States from Northern Nigeria.

Participants at the meeting include; representatives of host oil communities, faith based organisations, human tights groups, climate justice activists, women and youth groups, indigenous peoples’ groups, and environmental groups. The event continues tomorrow with demonstrations against the activities of oil majors in the country.

The activitists later stormed the NNPCL Tower in Abuja with myriads of placards bearing different inscriptions like: “We demand a just Energy Transition”, “We say No to Carbon Emission”, “We say No to Global Warning”, “We say No to Environmental Degradation”;

Others are; “We say No to Gas Flaring”, “We Say No to Shell Transition Strategy”, among others. The groups bemoaned the level of penury and agonies Shell among other oil giants in Nigeria have subjected Nigerians in the host communities .

They presented a letter demanding the withdrawal of the operating License of Shell and the resolutions of their meetings to the representative of the Group Managing Director of NNPCL.