Dear Rt. Hon. Speaker: I write on behalf of the above-named organisation. QL&EF is an environmental consultancy primarily focused on preventing the continued degradation of the environment worldwide.It was brought to our attention via a publication titled “Ogun to spend N7b on power plant” written by Femi Shodunke in The Compass Newspaper dated Friday 13th November 2009 that the Ogun State government is planning to purchase the above mentioned generators from China. The manufacturer is CSI Ningbo Ltd., China (http://www.ningdong.com/en/index.php?page=3). The generators according to information provided on the website of the manufacturers run on ‘Heavy Fuel Oil’ (HFO) (see attached [dated] web page). HFO is the low quality ‘left over’ from the processing stages of crude oil. Some of the characteristics of HFO are: high viscosity (very thick), high levels of contaminants (e.g. Sulphur which becomes sulphur dioxide upon combustion) and requires heating at very high temperature before usage (adding to running cost and energy wastage).
