Lobby and Advocacy for the Review of Existing Land Contamination Regulatory Thresholds

CEHRD undertook an advocacy visit to Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) , Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) and National Oil Spill Detection & Response Agency NOSDRA (Lagos and Port Harcourt) at the State and Federal level which are the two regulatory agencies focused on the clean-up of environment and the wider remediation of polluted sites in the Niger Delta region. To this, CEHRD’s visits was to introduce the project and outline focus objectives of the proposed project and the desire of stakeholders particularly civil society organizations to achieve a sustainable clean-up of the Niger Delta starting from Ogoniland. During these meetings, NOSDRA and HYPREP gave their supports and promised to partner with CEHRD for effective and efficient implementation of the project and clean-up of Ogoniland.