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Shell confirms Forcados export pipeline leakage after attack

The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited, operator of the SPDC JV, has confirmed signs of a leak on the 48inch Forcados export...

Michael Simire - June 3, 2016

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Ogoniland clean-up: Crusaders want government to match talk with action

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), member organisations of Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) and community-based groups from the Niger...

admin - March 31, 2016

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Mohammed: How Nigeria will restore Niger Delta livelihood, lifestyle

Nigeria will begin the long-awaited clean-up of the polluted Niger Delta region by month’s end, Environment Minister, Amina Mohammed, has said. She made the disclosure...

admin - March 3, 2016

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Explosive oil fields of the Niger Delta

Recent bombings of oil pipelines in the Niger Delta again raise the spectre of escalation of conflicts in the region. While we cannot say...

admin - January 20, 2016

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Niger Delta infernal pipelines: Need for new consciousness

With the delay in proposed clean-up of the Ogoni environment, no seriousness to halt gas flaring and with the continued piling of more pollution,...

admin - January 4, 2016

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Rights groups hail Dutch court ruling, Shell winces

A Dutch appeals court has ruled that Royal Dutch Shell can be held liable for oil spills at its Nigerian subsidiary. The decision overturns...

admin - December 18, 2015

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22 years after, Chevron pollution victims still await justice in Ecuador

Hundreds of families are caught in a 22-year-long legal battle with Chevron over Ecuador pollution, with no end in sight, writes Priyanka Gupta, who...

admin - November 13, 2015

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