Firm to pay N1m tax per truckload
Milhouse Energy Services Ltd, a coal mining firm at Awhum, Enugu State, is to pay the sum of N1 billion into the Enugu State Environmental Remediation Trust Fund, while also paying a N100,000 tax on every truckload of coal evacuated from a mining site at Awhum, in Udi Council of the state .
  
The fund will be transparently managed by an independent committee of professionals, specifically for the remediation and healing of the affected environment. 
   
Recall that the mining site was one of the many sealed by the Enugu State Committee on Review of Mining Activities, headed by the Commissioner for Environment and Climate Change, Prof. Sam Ugwu, following a crackdown by the Governor Peter Mbah administration on illegal mining sites in the state, including those without environmental impact certification and remediation plans.
   
In addition, an Enugu State High Court also granted an interim injunction restraining Milhouse Energy Services and African Pits & Quarries Ltd, their agents, servants, privies, workers, among others, from “carrying on further activities, environmental degradation, damaging and interfering in whatsoever manner with the large expanse of land situated at Ibite Awhum.”