Foundation develops monitoring guide for extractive industry

An environmental rights group, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), has developed a resource material for environmental monitoring and reporting for use in Niger Delta Communities.
Executive Director of HOMEF, Rev. Nnimmo Bassey, who disclosed this yesterday in Yenagoa said that the resource was, developed to assist communities that host oil and extractive industry activities.
Bassey explained that the resource – Community Monitoring Guide which is published as a handbook illustrates the procedures and actions required to safeguard the environment from the activities of oil exploration and other mining activities.
According to him, the guide was developed by HOMEF after extensive research, field visits and consultations with Niger Delta Communities in a forum known as Community Dialogues.
He stressed that the foundation has commenced a capacity building project aimed at training communities to monitor their environments and report any breach of existing laws on the environment.