Nigeria: Oil Spill - Coys Must Pay Ecological Debt

18 December 2008

Environmental experts have called on oil companies operating in the oil rich region of the Niger Delta to be prompt and paying back their ecological debts as the only way of restoring the region.

The experts made this plea in Abuja at the first national environmental consultation organised by the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria in partnership with the Federal Ministry of Environment.

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