Anger over enduring ’environmental horror’ in oil-rich, polluted Niger delta | Global development | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/nov/09/anger-environmental-in-oil-rich-polluted-niger-delta-ogoniland-ken-saro
“The benefits of oil revenue are still elusive. Delta communities still have no electricity, no basic services. And the oil spills keep happening.”
Shell was declared unwelcome and ejected by the Ogoni in the early 1990s, but its network of ageing pipelines that pass through Ogoniland still leak and are regularly vandalised.
“The main change in 20 years on the delta is that people are more conscious of the environmental horror they are forced to live in. Today they are demanding a cleanup. Before, they thought that it would not get worse and that government would be responsive. Now there is increasing disappointment. People are more organised and more concerned,” said Nnimmo Bassey, director of Health of Mother Earth group and former chair of Friends of the Earth International.
Amnesty report accuses Shell of failing to clean up Niger delta oil spills
▻http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/nov/03/amnesty-report-accuses-shell-of-failing-to-clean-up-niger-delta-oil-spi
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