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Nigeria: Bonga Oil Spill - Senate Committee Okay With Clean up
Vanguard, 1 January 2012
Chairman Senate Committee on Environment, Senator Bukola Saraki has expressed satisfaction on the prompt and effective way Shell responded on the Bonga oil spill. Read more »
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Nigeria: Bonga Spill - Shell Is Irresponsible, Says Nimasa
Vanguard, 4 January 2012
Management of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, has described the denial of Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, on Bonga oil spill as… Read more »
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Nigeria: Bonga Oil Spill - USEPA to Collaborate With FG
This Day, 1 January 2012
The United States of America Environ-mental Protection Agency (USEPA) has indicated its readiness to work with the federal government in the latter's bid to tackle the recent Bonga… Read more »
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Nigeria: Bonga Oil Spill - NDIMRC Mobilises International Monitors
This Day, 3 January 2012
A Warri-based group, the Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change has commenced the mobilisation of both local and international monitors to beam their searchlight on the… Read more »
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Uganda: Nigeria Oil Troubles Offer Key Lessons
Monitor, 4 January 2012
Since Uganda discovered its first commercially viable oil deposits, the country has had its fair share of controversy and shenanigans surrounding its nascent oil sector. Read more »
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Nigeria: Tension Over Niger Delta 'Worst Oil Spill in a Decade'
Vanguard, 1 January 2012
Two alleged separate and massive oil spills are threatening several communities in Delta and Bayelsa States. Although crude oil spills have been a recurring decimal in the blighted… Read more »
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Nigeria: Shell Oil Spills Spread to Delta Communities
Daily Champion, 28 December 2011
The crude oil volumes that spilled from Bonga deepwater field has started arriving the coastal communities in Niger Delta, sparking off a spate of public outcry over the dreaded… Read more »
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Nigeria: Major Oil Spill Off Country's Coast
Daily Trust, 28 December 2011
An environmental group said yesterday that an oil slick had approached Nigeria's coastline after a major Shell spill last week. Read more »
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Nigeria: Another Oil Spill Ravages Western Niger Delta
This Day, 28 December 2011
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has launched a probe to ascertain the source of a new oil spill, which has hit the coastal areas in the Western… Read more »
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Nigeria: Bonga Oil Spill - We Are Set for Rough Deal With Shell, Says Communities
The Moment, 28 December 2011
THE Odioma community in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State and their counterparts in Delta State hit by the blow-out from the oil spill from Shell Bonga oil fields have… Read more »
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Nigeria: Lawmaker Seeks Support for Shell Over Bonga Oil Spill
Vanguard, 28 December 2011
THE reported crude oil spill at the Bonga oil field has been described as a national calamity which must require all hands to be on deck in order to curtail the spillage and… Read more »
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Nigeria: Bayelsa Community Decries Oil Spill
Daily Trust, 28 December 2011
The people of Odioma community in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have decried the effects of the oil spill suspected to emanate from Shell's Bonga Field oil spillage… Read more »
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Nigeria: Bayelsa Communities Raise Alarm Over Spillage From Shell's Bonga Field
Vanguard, 28 December 2011
Indigenes and fishermen of Bayelsa State communities on the Atlantic fringe, yesterday, raised alarm over the gradual spread of crude oil supposedly from Shell Petroleum… Read more »
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Nigeria: FG Targets Six Weeks for Bonga Spill Clean-Up
This Day, 25 December 2011
The federal government intends to probe the oil spill from Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company's Bonga deepwater field, Minister of Environment, Hajia Hadiza Ibrahim… Read more »
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Nigeria: Senate Committee Directs Shell to Pay Compensation
The Moment, 24 December 2011
THE Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology on Thursday directed Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) to pay undisclosed amount of compensation to… Read more »
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Nigeria: Bonga Oil Spill - We're Set for Rough Deal With Shell - Community
The Moment, 26 December 2011
THE Odioma community in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State has threatened that Shell Company limited would have a rough deal with the people in the area if it fails to… Read more »
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Nigeria: Spill - Source of Leak Identified
Daily Trust, 23 December 2011
The oil company Shell said Thursday night it had discovered the source of a leak in its offshore facility at Bonga which pumped some 40,000 barrels of oil two days ago--a spill… Read more »
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Nigeria: Ships, Planes Attack Major Shell Oil Spill Off
RNW Africa, 23 December 2011
Shell on Friday deployed ships with dispersants and planes in a bid to mop up one of Nigeria's worst offshore oil spills in recent years, a spokesman said, amid fears it could soon… Read more »