GJA Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Nuclear Power Ghana to Promote Reporting on Nuclear Power

General news for Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Source: Atinka online

2020-09-29

The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Nuclear Power Ghana to train media professionals in energy reporting with special emphasis on nuclear power.

The memorandum of understanding will encourage journalists to reorient the focus on educating the public about nuclear energy, thereby enhancing our industrial and economic growth and making Ghana the “powerhouse”.

Speaking at the event, GJA President Rolland Affail Monney noted that as the world battles Covid-19 and its related problems, relentless efforts to escape energy shortages, reduce greenhouse gas emissions as the impacts of climate change on natural and human systems are some of the challenges that cannot be ignored.

He asserted that the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, as well as the responsibility to do so safely, makes the issue of nuclear energy inescapable.

“The Volta River Authority, Ghana Grid Company and Bui Power Authority, our key energy institutions, have been the main drivers of Ghana’s socio-economic development and will continue to support Independent Power Producers (IPPs) to play a central role in the achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDG 7, which underlines the need to “ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all in the future,” he said.

However, Affail Monney said the energy system will need to be profoundly transformed in the next decade as Ghana works towards “sor, sor” to accelerate our industrial development and, in the long term, toward eliminating “dum”. dum.dum.sor ”.

“The GJA is very excited about today’s historic collaboration on how our power, as the media, can defend public information and ownership of our country’s efforts in energy security, industrial development and sustainability,” he said.

The GJA President added that, “We are confident that the hope expressed by our nuclear scientists and energy experts who are leading Ghana’s efforts to reignite the country’s long-standing vision of using nuclear technology for power generation will be exit. We believe that these efforts would accelerate our industrial and economic growth and make Ghana the “powerhouse” of the subregion. “

He observed that environmental demands and the need for energy security continue to be in tension, for which he added that “as a professional body we are committed to promoting clean and sustainable technologies and efforts that help us as a nation to overcome the many difficulties that arise. . stand between today and a future with global energy security. “

Affail Monney recalled the words of our first president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah at the launch of the Atomic Project on November 25, 1964, citing that, “We have been forced to enter the field of atomic energy because it already promises to produce the greatest economic source of power since the beginning of man. Our success in this field would allow us to solve the many problems that we face in all areas of our development in Ghana and in Africa.

Therefore, he reaffirmed the Association’s commitment to the good dissemination of public information and discourse to promote ideas, scientific and engineering technologies, social and economic efforts that compensate for our energy poverty and expired unsustained energy security activities.

“As committed and objective professionals, we exercise power over the minds, hearts and activities of our people. Therefore, it is our noble duty to collaborate with you, the Ghana Nuclear Power Program Organization (GNPPO) and Nuclear Power Ghana (NPG), to provide a holistic framework for media relations and information management in support of the Ghana Nuclear Power implementation. Power Program and Project and also guide our people to make excellent and informed energy decisions for domestic and industrial development, ”he added.