GHANA’S VEEP TO LAUNCH ENVIRONMENT CHANNEL
EDMUND SMITH-ASANTE
Ghana’s Vice President, H. E. John Dramani Mahama, will launch an Environment Channel, a path breaking television series dedicated to the environment on Thursday 29 April 2010 at Silverbird Cinemas, Accra Mall, Accra.
The Environment Channel, to be broadcast on a national television network, “hopes to make environmental issues relevant to the daily lives of Ghanaians and bring home the importance of reversing environmental degradation in all spheres of our lives,” according to a press release issued by communications company and producers of the 10-part series, Creative Storm.
Speaking to the issue of environmental degradation, Vice President John Mahama, said “We are drowning in plastics, our environment is so polluted and this is not only an urban phenomenon. You go to the smallest village and there are plastics all over the place. Even the livestock are chewing plastics and dying.”
In an interview with this reporter, Creative Storm said the company is currently working on the particular television network to use for the series and will make that known when a deal is struck.
Distinguished speakers at the launch which is supported by the World Bank will include, Hon. Sherry Ayittey, Minister of the Environment, Science and Technology, Mr. Allotey, Executive Director of Environment Protection Agency, Hon. Alfred Vanderpuije, Mayor of Accra and representatives from the World Bank, Embassy of France, KASA, and Wienco Agriculture.
Highlights from the series will be screened, as well as a special presentation on plastic waste, one of Ghana’s most pressing environmental challenges.
Ghana’s Vice President, H. E. John Dramani Mahama, will launch an Environment Channel, a path breaking television series dedicated to the environment on Thursday 29 April 2010 at Silverbird Cinemas, Accra Mall, Accra.
The Environment Channel, to be broadcast on a national television network, “hopes to make environmental issues relevant to the daily lives of Ghanaians and bring home the importance of reversing environmental degradation in all spheres of our lives,” according to a press release issued by communications company and producers of the 10-part series, Creative Storm.
Speaking to the issue of environmental degradation, Vice President John Mahama, said “We are drowning in plastics, our environment is so polluted and this is not only an urban phenomenon. You go to the smallest village and there are plastics all over the place. Even the livestock are chewing plastics and dying.”
In an interview with this reporter, Creative Storm said the company is currently working on the particular television network to use for the series and will make that known when a deal is struck.
Distinguished speakers at the launch which is supported by the World Bank will include, Hon. Sherry Ayittey, Minister of the Environment, Science and Technology, Mr. Allotey, Executive Director of Environment Protection Agency, Hon. Alfred Vanderpuije, Mayor of Accra and representatives from the World Bank, Embassy of France, KASA, and Wienco Agriculture.
Highlights from the series will be screened, as well as a special presentation on plastic waste, one of Ghana’s most pressing environmental challenges.
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