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Environmental and social assessment: Stakeholders share notes.

The Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) for exploration/appraisal drilling and early field development within the onshore “Matanda Block”, in the Douala sedimentary basin is currently going on. In effect the drilling project to be carried out by Gaz du Cameroun will involve the Littoral and the South West regions precisely in Bekoko in the Dibombari Subdivision and Miselele in the Tiko Subdivision of the South West Region. In relation to this, a meeting was organized by Gaz du Cameroun on March 4, 2020 in Douala aimed at educating the stakeholders and to explain the ESIA process to them. It was also to get their contribution on the project so as to make amendments when the project will finally go operational. The project to be carried out by Gaz du Cameroun company will involve the drilling of an appraisal well to target gas and boost their production that will meet up with the high demand.

While chairing the meeting the governor of the Littoral region, Samuel Dieudonne Ivaha Diboua, called on Gaz du Cameroun and the stakeholders concerned to consider the population whose lives will be affected in one way or the other by the project.

The environmentalist from “Gaz du Cameroun”, Juliet Taza-Asaba, explained that the meeting will enable them get firsthand information on the needs and expectations of the population. “We will use their ideas to shape the assessment and work for the benefit of all”, she added.

Juliet Taza-Asaba said the project would involve drilling of at least two wells to fire gas that will be linked up to their system. According to the representative of CIME Services (company carrying out the assessment), Nkerbu Presley Nfor, the assessment is out to evaluate the positive and negative impacts of the project on the environment and the community concerned. He said after the drilling of the exploration well, Gaz du Cameroun will also construct pipeline to link to their other system which will produce industrial gas.

Meanwhile the representative from SNH, Adolph Ballo, explained that the Environmental and Social assessment is in line with the Rio Declaration of 1992, and the national environment and petroleum framework of 1996 which compels all petroleum companies to carry out environmental assessment before the beginning of any project.