The activities of mining and extraction of minerals and especially petroleum crude oil has gone on now for more than half a century. Crude oil and gas production has helped in no doubt to solve the energy problems of man and his society at large. But when in the bid to solve a problem, you create several recurring problems, then it is expected and mandatory we go back to the drawing board and analyze our options. Imbalances in weather patterns and atmospheric conditions are problems which have come about as a result of the quest to solve our energy needs. The continued production and consumption of fossil fuels is gradually destroying the environment, and it’s time to say it plainly as it is. We can’t go on pretending that we do not actually know the crude sources of the pollution and degradation we are currently experiencing in the environment. If we continue to mine crude oil, refine and flare petroleum gas, even when it is glaring that these activities are polluting the air that