Sonigitu Ekpe

Comparative study of activities of Sawmilling Industry on the Environment of two selected locations within Southern Nigeria Sonigitu Ekpe

Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Economy - Environment economics, grade: -, - (Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Nigeria), language: English, abstract: This work examines the comparative study of activities of Sawmilling Industry on the Environment of two selected locations within Southern Nigeria, Lagos and Delta States between August 2008 and September 2009. The primary data were collected through oral interview and field experiments. While secondary data were from printed materials. The focus has been to compare the various waste generated, its uses and environmental impact on the two locations. Experiments were conducted in the rainy and dry season for the comparative study. The study has been divided into three main areas: volume of waste generated and various uses, effect of type of chain-saw machine used, and impact of sawmilling activities on the environment of the two locations. A natural logarithm transformation of the data was used for some datasets to satisfy assumption of normality and variance homogeneity, means and standard error were back transformed for presentation, specific treatment pairs were compared using a t-test.