ACADEMIA Letters Gas faring in Nigeria: A crisis for the Environment Emmanuel Awulu, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom Abstract Gas faring has been criticised in a number of countries worldwide. While the practise remains legal in a number of countries, many have campaigned for its repeal. The environ- mental and health impacts were examined using Nigeria as a case study. Data and information were retrieved using Google search, Medline, Pubmed and other search engines. All avail- able data/information suggest that gas faring is detrimental to the environment and to human health. Gas faring has been detrimental to the communities in which it is carried out, creating environmental, economic, and health problems. Additionally, the government’s and policy- makers’ reluctance is a factor. These difculties that residents face as a result of gas fares are sufcient to justify the practise of gas faring being discontinued. Fines enforced on delin- quent businesses should be sufcient to deter them while the gas is processed and converted to cooking/domestic gas. The United Nation in collaboration with the African Union must sanction defaulting countries as deterrent to others. The time has come to halt gas faring in Nigeria. Introduction In this study, natural gas is extracted along with crude oil. Flaring is used to dispose of related gas in oil-producing locations where natural gas infrastructure is lacking (JINN, 2010). The apex of a gas fare is also used to burn of gaseous waste products from chemical plants, oil refneries, oil wells, drilling rigs, and landflls. It’s called gas faring. This procedure is used to dispose of waste gases since they are toxic or inconvenient to store and transport. This is Academia Letters, October 2021 Corresponding Author: Emmanuel Awulu, emmanuelawulu5@gmail.com Citation: Awulu, E. (2021). Gas faring in Nigeria: A crisis for the Environment. Academia Letters, Article 3799. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL3799. 1 ©2021 by the author — Open Access — Distributed under CC BY 4.0