RESEARCH ON ALTERNATIVE ENERGY INSTEAD OF OIL, ONUESOKE ADVISES FG

People democratic party(PDP) Chieftain and  Delta State  PDP Governorship aspirant in 2007 general election, Chief Sunny Onuesoke on Wednessday 24th has advised the Federal Government of Nigeria to intensify  research on establishment of alternative energy instead of spending funds in researching for discovery of oil in the Northern part of the country.

Giving the advise while reacting to Federal Government directive to Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to embark on exploration on discovery of oil in the Northern part of the country, Onuesoke said it is a waste of fund  conducting  exploration for the  discovery of oil in the Northern part of the country that has no oil, when other countries are diversifying to less expensive and pollution effect  source of energy like sugar ethanol, solar energy and  electricity driven cars and airplane.

The PDP Chieftain argued that when other countries are saving money by conducting research on discovery of alternative energy,   it is now Nigeria is capitalizing on exploring oil as source of energy and revenue.

“Nigeria has abundant sources of alternative energy such as solar energy, biomass, as well as wind energy. The only problem is that the country does not have the equipment to convert these forms of energy into power.  If that be the case, fund expended in conducting research for exploration should be diverted in procuring equipment for the aforementioned sources of alternative energy that is abundant in the country,” Onuesoke suggested.

 He advised that   funds   budgeted  on  searching for oil  that is no more marketable should be channel to research on  alternative  energy  like solar energy,  sugar ethanol  and electricity source of energy.

“The money government is spending on researching for oil in the North is a waste. They should channel such fund on research for alternative energy.  We should emulate countries like   Mauritius that has been using sugar ethanol  as source of energy   to power electricity for the past  30 years, America  using solar energy to power unmanned plane and  Germany which using  electric power gas,” he disclosed.

Onuesoke who pointed out that  most countries are now using   electric powered energy, said Nigeria  should   research on technology    of how  to convert  its  flared gas for  powering of   turbine  for the supply of electricity  energy instead of  wasting the flared of gas.

He disclosed that the world is turning against production of oil because the pollutant effect of production of oil and high cost of exploration of petroleum, adding that petroleum gas flaring as pronounced in Kyoto declaration is against the policy of climate change.