About 50 million tons of fuelwood is used annually by Nigerian households, the Dean, College of Engineering, Covenant University, Prof. David Omole,has said
Omole,who disclosed this in his lecture at the 20th International Conference/Annual General Meeting of the Nigerian Institution of Environmental Engineers in Ogun State,also said household sector accounts for 65 per cent of energy consumed in Nigeria which is largely due to the low level of development in all the other sectors.
According to him,86 per cent of rural households in Nigeria depended on fuelwood as their source of energy.
The Nigerian Institution of Environmental Engineers has called for the need to improve the environment through energy sustainability policies.
Speaking,the National Chairman, NIEE, Olalekan Ajani, advocated the need to improve the environment through energy sustainability policies.
According to him, the energy resource potential is diverse for every state but the principle for sustainability and having an improved environment remained universal.
He added:“In energy economics and ecological energetics, the lower the Energy Return On Energy Invested of a process, the lower the sustainability and the faster fossil fuel resources are depleted.
“The EROEI is the ratio of the amount of usable energy delivered from a particular energy resource to the amount of energy used to obtain that energy resource.This we must monitor closely to achieve sustainability while reducing the carbon footprint using all possible policy framework in actualising an improved environment.”
