Niger Delta oil spills

Claims by oil giant Shell it features cleansed up heavily polluted areas of the Niger Delta tend to be blatantly untrue, Amnesty International plus the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) stated in a brand new report posted today.

Clean it: Shell's false claims about oil spills inside Niger Delta papers continuous contamination at four oil spill web sites that Shell stated it had cleansed up years ago. The report will be published to mark the twentieth anniversary associated with the execution, on 10 November 1995, of environmental activist and publisher, Ken Saro-Wiwa, whom campaigned tirelessly up against the damage due to the oil industry within the Niger Delta.

“By inadequately cleaning up the air pollution from its pipelines and wells, Shell is making tens of thousands of females, guys and children subjected to contaminated land, water and atmosphere, in many cases for decades and sometimes even years, ” said Mark Dummett, company and Human liberties specialist at Amnesty Overseas.

“Oil spills have actually a devastating effect on the fields, woodlands and fisheries that the folks of the Niger Delta be determined by for their meals and livelihood. Anybody Who visits these spill sites is able to see and smell for themselves the way the air pollution has spread across the land.”

Anybody who visits these pour internet sites can see and smell on their own the way the air pollution features spread throughout the land.

The report also documents the failure of Nigerian government to modify the oil business. Its watchdog, the National Oil Spill Detection and reaction department (NOSDRA) is under-resourced and will continue to approve areas as clean that are visibly contaminated with crude oil.

“As individuals in Nigeria and around the globe keep in mind Ken Saro-Wiwa and the eight other Ogoni leaders who were executed in 1995, Shell in addition to federal government of Nigeria cannot disregard the terrible history for the oil business within the Niger Delta. For most people associated with the region, oil has brought just misery, ” said Stevyn Obodoekwe, CEHRD’s Director of Programmes.

“The standard of living of people residing in the middle of oil fumes, oil encrusted soil and streams awash with crude oil is appalling, and has now been for many years.”

Investigation finds visible air pollution at internet sites Shell states it cleaned

The Niger Delta may be the biggest oil-producing area in Africa. The biggest intercontinental oil company there is certainly Shell. It operates around 50 oil areas and 5, 000 kilometer of pipelines, much of all of them ageing and poorly-maintained. The oil giant’s very own figures acknowledge to 1, 693 oil spills since 2007, though the real number is most likely greater.

Last year the us Environmental Programme (UNEP) revealed huge levels of air pollution brought on by oil spills from Shell pipelines inside Ogoniland area of the Niger Delta. UNEP additionally exposed how the damage done into environment and individuals had been exacerbated because of the organization’s failure to wash within the spills properly. As a result, Shell guaranteed to wash up web sites identified by UNEP and enhance its reaction to future spills.

Yet in field investigations at four of the spill sites UNEP identified as highly polluted in 2011, Amnesty International and CEHRD found all four remain visibly contaminated in 2015, even though Shell says it has cleaned them. The investigation demonstrates that is considering insufficient clean-up, and never brand-new oil spills.