The Enugu State Government has directed a coal mining firm, Milhouse Energy Services Limited, located in the state to pay N1 billion into the Enugu State Environmental Remediation Trust Fund.
The Commissioner for Environment and Climate Change, Sam Ugwu, a professor, disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Enugu, the state capital.
Mr Ugwu directed that the firm located at Awhum in Udi Local Government Area of the state would also pay a N100,000 tax on every truckload of coal evacuated from a mining site.
