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Nigeria: Why Can't They Clean Up Bodo Creek Oil Spills?
Legalbrief, 12 July 2017
One of the world’s greatest avoidable ecological disasters, the 2008/9 oil spills in Nigeria’s Bodo Creek, has landed back in court, in London, where the judge has… Read more »
Why Can't They Clean Up Bodo Creek Oil Spills in Nigeria?
Two oil spills between 2008 and 2009 caused by corroded Shell pipelines have devastated the livelihoods of the the fishing community of Bodo in the Niger Delta. Royal Dutch Shell agreed to pay £55 million in compensation and have it cleaned up. Though the compensation has been paid, oil still laps on the shoreline of its creeks. The promised clean-up operation has yet to begin.
Pastor Christian Lekoya Kpandei's hand covered in oily mud, Bodo Creek, in 2011 (file photo).
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Nigeria: Cleanup of Oil Producing Areas to Cost $50 Billion
Vanguard, 6 June 2017
There are strong indications that the cleanup of over 2,500 contaminated sites in Nigeria's oil producing areas would cost the federal government and other stakeholders over $50… Read more »
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Nigeria: Disappointment, Anger in Ogoniland Over Govt's Delay to Clean Up Oil Spills
Premium Times, 25 May 2017
Lekol Bakpoh, a health worker at Biara, Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State, has lived in constant apprehension about the state of his health and those of his family… Read more »
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Nigeria: Whistleblower Accuses Shell of Concealing Data On Nigerian Oil Spills
This Day, 28 March 2017
A whistleblower and former Project Director of the Bodo Mediation Initiative (BMI), Mr. Kay Holtzman, has accused Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) of concealing data on… Read more »
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Nigeria: Geologist Hired By Shell Says Firm Concealed Data On Nigerian Oil Spill
Premium Times, 26 March 2017
The global oil giant, Shell, is concealing data showing thousands of Nigerians are exposed to health hazards from a stalled clean-up of the worst oil spills in the nation's… Read more »
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Africa: Shell Tries to Dodge Responsibility for Nigeria Oil Spills... Again
African Arguments, 25 November 2016
The oil company is back in the UK courts trying to shift the blame for the environmental destruction wrought in the Niger Delta. Read more »
