Tag:Oil spill

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Fresh oil spill reported from Agip’s Ogboinbiri Well 7 in Bayelsa

Still smarting from an extensive crude oil spill that polluted their swamps and river around May/June 2020, residents of Ogboinbiri community in Apoi Clan...

Michael Simire - December 13, 2020

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Nigeria Shell employees vandalise oil pipelines for profit, says report

Nigerian employees of the Anglo-Dutch oil company, Shell, ordered the deliberate vandalisation of oil pipelines for personal gain, a documentary in the Netherlands has...

Michael Simire - December 10, 2020

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NOSDRA sanctions Conoil, confirms fresh leak from firm’s field in Bayelsa

The National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) on Wednesday, December 2, 2020 said it has detected a leak from an under sea...

Michael Simire - December 2, 2020

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Fresh oil spill in Bayelsa pollutes creek, communities

Officials of the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) have disclosed that what looks like an extensive oil spill occurred in the...

Michael Simire - November 30, 2020

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Oil Spill: Supreme Court dismisses Shell’s application to review appeal against N17bn judgment

The Supreme Court has dismissed an application by Shell Petroleum Development Company, asking it to review its judgment of Jan. 11, 2019 that ordered...

Michael Simire - November 27, 2020

Pollution

Third oil spill in six months pollutes Okpoama communities in Bayelsa

Another oil leak, the third in six months, has discharged a yet-to-be-ascertained volume of crude oil polluting the Okpoama community and its environs in...

Michael Simire - November 2, 2020

Pollution

Bayelsa community reports oil leak at Agip’s oilfield

The people of Okpoama Community in the Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have reported an oil spillage at an oilfield operated by...

Michael Simire - October 26, 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

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