Another dead whale washed ashore in Ellembelle district.


Another dead whale washed ashore in Ellembelle district.

A dead whale has been washed ashore at Asanta in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region on Tuesday night.

According to "Friends of the Nation", a social and environmental group, this incident adds up to the number of dead whales washed ashore within a 30-day period to six and total of 17 since 2009

The group argued that the ever increasing death of whale “is an indication that something wrong is happening in the marine environment [that] needs to be investigated.”

There is strong suspicion that oil exploration activities in the Western Region could be the cause of the death of the whales.

The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, the Fisheries Commission and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its preliminary investigation into the dead of the fifth whale at Nkontompo in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis, also in the Western Region explained that the cause of the dead of whales could not be as a result of oil and gas exploration in the Western region.

But “Friends the Nation” in a press statement said that government cannot downplay the possibility that the cause of the whale deaths is as a result of the impact of offshore petroleum activities

They therefore called on the EPA, Fisheries Commission, and Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission and relevant bodies to conduct thorough investigations into the death of whales in order to come out with an empirical evidence to ascertain the cause.

They believe in the interim, the EPA must "revise the Guidelines of Oil & Gas operations and include the requirement of at least a Preliminary Environmental Assessment for all offshore seismic exploration surveys."



 By Joshua kweikuma Quaye
Ghananewslink.com



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