Tag:National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA)

Health

NOSDRA subjects Shell’s ‘leaking’ pipeline to third-party examination

The National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) says it has subjected a section of the 14″ Okordia-Rumuekpe pipeline to third-party examination to...

Michael Simire - October 23, 2020

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Why we side with victims of Shell’s Bayelsa oil spill, by group

Comrade Alagoa Morris, Head, Bayelsa Office of the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) at a media session themed: “Resisting Regulatory Capture” on...

Michael Simire - October 22, 2020

Pollution

Govt hands over Ogoni remediation sites to NOSDRA for scientific analysis

The Federal Government says it has handed over some of the oil spill impacted sites in Ogoniland to the National Oil Spill Detection and...

Michael Simire - September 27, 2020

Pollution

Shell dismisses Angiama 45,000 barrel oil spill report as NOSDRA admits error

The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) has dismissed a report that it spilled 45,000 barrels of oil from an incident at...

Michael Simire - September 7, 2020

Pollution

45 barrels not 45,000 barrels leaked from Bayelsa oil field – NOSDRA

The National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) on Monday, September 7, 2020 confirmed that 45 barrels and not 45,000 barrels of crude...

Michael Simire - September 7, 2020

Pollution

45,000 barrels of crude spilled at Shell operated Angiama fields in Bayelsa, says NOSDRA

The National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) on Friday, September 4, 2020 confirmed the discharge of 45,000 barrels of crude oil at...

Michael Simire - September 4, 2020

Pollution

Fed up with the fumes

Dirty air in Nigeria takes a huge toll on lives and livelihoods. But civil society is not short of ideas for change, as Michael Simire finds...

Michael Simire - June 14, 2020

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Mixed reactions greet NOSDRA’s plan to extend mandate to downstream

Some environmentalists in the Niger Delta region in Nigeria on Thursday, June 11, 2020 expressed mixed reactions on the announcement by National Oil Spills...

Michael Simire - June 11, 2020

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