Nigeria - 2006 - Energy

National Oil Spill Detection And Response Agency (Establishment) Act, 2006

Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Nigeria

This is an act to provide for the establishment of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency and related matters. The objectives of the Agency are to co-ordinate and implement the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan for Nigeria, establish a viable national operational organization that ensures a safe, timely, effective and appropriate response to major or disastrous oil pollution, identify high-risk areas as well as priority areas for protection and clean up, establish the mechanism to monitor and assist or where expedient direct the response, including the capability to mobilize the necessary resources to save lives, protect threatened environment, and clean up to the best practical extent of the impacted site etc.

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National Assembly

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January 2022

This is an act to provide for the establishment of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency and related matters. The objectives of the Agency are to co-ordinate and implement the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan for Nigeria, establish a viable national operational organization that ensures a safe, timely, effective and appropriate response to major or disastrous oil pollution, identify high-risk areas as well as priority areas for protection and clean up, establish the mechanism to monitor and assist or where expedient direct the response, including the capability to mobilize the necessary resources to save lives, protect threatened environment, and clean up to the best practical extent of the impacted site etc.

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