Quarter2 Technical Working Group (TWG) 1 Meetings

The Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) facilitated technical group meetings to review and discuss the emerging technical issues to advance the Bodo Clean-up. The meeting had different stakeholders in attendance including the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), the National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), the Rivers State Ministry of Environment, Civil Society Organizations, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and the Bodo Mediation Initiative (BMI), the contractors working on the project, and Bodo community represented by the Bodo Contact Committee (BCC). The aim of the meeting was to provide a platform for the technical and Management teams of the project to discuss the technical process, appropriate technologies, applicable thresholds and the best attainable remediation suitable for the context being cleaned.  Update & clarification of progress of clean-up and chemical sampling;  Commitment by Regulators to ensure timely arrivals for field take-off.  Commitment by SPDC to address logistic issues that may potentially delay field departures  Decision by stakeholders to set a consensus threshold limit of mangrove die-offs as planting progresses.