500,000 Jobs Expected From Renewable Energy (Nigeria)

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=67530

National Coordinator, Council of Renewable Energy in Nigeria, Mr Odigha Odiagha, has predicted that exploitation of the country's renewable energy potential could create avenues for the employment of about 500,000 job seekers in the next 10 years.

Odigha, in a statement yesterday, described the development of Nigeria’s renewable energy sector as a major strategy that would not only conserve the nation’s oil reserves, but would also develop the economy and improve the populace.

"Developing, manufacturing, building, installing, and maintaining renewable energy technologies has the potential to create many new Nigerian-lead jobs and powerful modern industries.

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He said successful implementation would result in the installation of 2,945 mega watts of wind, solar PV, solar thermal, small hydro and biomass by 2025, roughly an equivalent to the entire capacity used in Nigeria today.

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Bush has forever dispelled the myth of White superiority.

No way in Hell is the government of Nigeria going to implement an honest program of renewable energy.

They are the most corrupt government on the face of the planet, and care less about their citizens than you or I care about stepping on an ant by mistake.

This will never happen. Don't believe me? Check back with me in 5 years, OK, and let me know how much of this pie-in-the-sky "plan" has actually been implemented.

For every actual, working renewable-energy source that's up and running, I'll send you fifty bucks.

Redstone

***yawn***

And if not, why not?

Redstone

not surprised though...

feature. That's what it's there for.

If you're going to sling baseless bullshit at me, I suppose I should use it myself. But I'd rather stay and fight.

Look at my post again, would you? It was edited for a typo, not to remove the $50 bet. and it STILL doesn't have any whining in it.

You want to argue with me, fine. That's what discussion boards are for. But an argument does not consist of just flinging insults.

So, you got anything, or not?

Redstone

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ENERGY-NIGERIA: 'Solar Power Brings Relief to Villagers'

http://ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=34249

Before setting up the project, the village, with a population of 5,000, had not known electricity since its existence.

To provide services to the island, which can only be reached by boat, the state government decided to launch the solar project there in May.

Nineteen other remote villages would also benefit from the project before the end of the year, according to state government officials.

''The tropical climate makes solar energy the most viable alternative source of renewable energy in Nigeria. Harnessing the sun's energy to produce power is an imperative for rural areas where the hope of being connected to the national grid is very remote and extremely expensive,'' Kadiri Hamzat, Lagos State Commissioner for Science and Technology, said in Ikeja, capital of Lagos State, in June. He was briefing journalists about the activities of his ministry in the past one year.

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Let's see that's 19 times $50 = $950 (I'll take it in cash or a certified check)

or maybe a $100 (or more)...

http://www.self.org/nigeria.asp

According to the story, this project was paid for by the Japanese, not by the Nigerian government.

I would be only too happy to be proven wrong; to see the Nigerian government actually do something for its people with all that oil money would be heartening, indeed.

But the Nigerian government did not build this project. Japanese foreign aid did. All the Nigerian government did was to allow the Japanese to fund it.

Redstone

LAGOS, Aug 5 (IPS) - Bishop Kodji, a small fishing and canoe carving island in the Atlantic Ocean off Nigeria's sprawling commercial hub of Lagos, has become the first village to be electrified under the Lagos State government's pilot solar energy project.

an earlier project was partly funded by Japan - but not this one...

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A similar project launched in 2002 by the Nigerian government, through the assistance of the Japanese government, has lit 200 rural communities in Imo, Ondo and Jigawa states as well as in Abuja, the nation's capital.

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the money please

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For those that don't any better, Nigeria is the most corrupt place on earth!! I believe 60 Minutes did a piece on Nigeria and their corruption.

Bear in mind that Nigeria has a pretty high unemployment rate and a minimum wage of about $40 per month, so it's not going to cost much out of those oil revenues. On the other hand, 500,000 more jobs is a vote winner, and you can't take bribes if you're not in power... :)

One the one hand, It's high time that a country recognised that fixing our fossil addiction can actually be a source of employment and economic growth, rather than being the end of the world.

On the other hand, it's pity that the country is Nigeria, which accounts for fuck all CO₂ production (53MT CO₂ for 133 million people - that 0.4 tons per capita, compared to 20 or so for the US)

Hey ho.

And, as you said, it's Nigeria. That country is not going to spend ONE CENT of oil revenues for the benefit of their citizens.

Note that the project that the OP touted was actually funded by Japan.

but see #15 - it's not totally impossible for a bent politician to lift a finger.

will be too busy to inundate us with their e-mails promising millions of dollars.