D-8 Countries Meet in Abuja, Search for Alternative Sources of Power

Abuja, Nigeria | June 22, 2009 by D-8 Secretariat

Scientific Research would be required to provide solutions to energy challenges in D-8 Countries

MEMBERS of the D-8 countries, earlier this month converged in Nigeria to find more proactive approaches to the quest for viable other sources of energy for its members.

Delegates from Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan, Turkey, and Nigeria met under the platform of the First D-8 Experts’ Working Group (WG) meeting to work out the role of energy research and development in meeting the D-8 objectives.

Presenting a speech on behalf of Nigeria’s D-8 Commissioner, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Science and Technology, Mr. Wahab Jimoh, stressed that the member countries’ scientific research institutions and universities would be required to serve for providing solutions to challenges that might confront the organisation in its activities with regards to industry, health, energy, science and technology, and related sectors.

He stressed: “This objective is now very much justified as epitomized in the challenges within the energy sector.

“The theme of the Experts’ Meeting, ‘The role of energy research and development in meeting the D-8 objectives’ is appropriate considering global attention to the spiral rise in price of crude oil which reached a peak of about $145/barrel some twelve months ago and its sudden crash to just over &40 /barrel at the moment.”

He continued: “Though a number of D-8 might be naturally blessed with different energy resources, the events of the past twelve months more than ever indicated that the D-8 member states must join the world in providing an affordable sustained energy base and a clean environment. One of the mechanisms for achieving this is through improved and intensified energy research and development efforts.

“It is my conviction that while the D-8 delegates brainstorm in R&D efforts in the traditional areas of coal, oil and gas, nuclear, renewable energy, you would also keep an eye on the emerging new technologies of biofuel, geothermal and hydrogen.”

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