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Bodo Oil Spill: Shell must own up, pay up and clean up

Originally published on Amnesty International. Oil spills have been devastating the Niger Delta region in Nigeria for decades, destroying the livelihoods of tens of thousands people living in the...

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Bombs, Oil Spill Shake Nigeria: Offshore leak stems from flexible export line...

Originally published on AdvisorOne. BY MARLENE Y. SATTER, ADVISORONE Nigeria was hit with a double whammy over the past few days: first an oil spill that could develop into its worst since January of...

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Coastal villages in Nigeria protest as crude oil washes ashore

Originally published on MSNBC. By msnbc.com and news services Nigerian villagers say oil washing up on the coast comes from a Royal Dutch Shell loading accident last month that caused the biggest spill...

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Fishermen lament withdrawal from sea over Bonga oil spill

Originally published by Information Nigeria. Group tasks Shell on clean-up exercise FISHERMEN in Akwa Ibom State are complaining about the directive by the Nigerian Oil Spills Detection and Response...

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Worst offshore oil spill for over 10 years in Nigeria

Originally published by the New Zealand Herald. A faulty pipe from an offshore oil field run by Royal Dutch Shell PLC near Nigeria’s coast spewed crude oil into the ocean for as much as 25 hours as...

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Nigeria: The Curse of Oil – 200 Riverside Delta Communities Cry Out

BY EMMA AMAIZE, originally published on AllAfrica.com There are two traditional African sayings that “a man that lives near the river will not use spit to wash his hands” and “a man cannot be in the...

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Shell admits 207 oil spills in 2011

Originally published on The Raw Story. By Terry Macalister, The Guardian STANDFIRST: Shell said in its annual report that the number of spills increased to 207 during 2011, from 195 in 2010 Shell has...

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100 miles of oil: Spill likely Nigeria’s worst in decade

Originally published on MSNBC.com Deep-water oil field shut down following leak LAGOS, Nigeria — Oil from an offshore spill has spread roughly 100 nautical miles after a leak occurred while loading a...

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Ogoni Community Disagree With Shell Over Cause of Oil Spill

Originally published on OgoniNews.com The people of Kegbara-Dere (K-Dere) Ogoni in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State and oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited...

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Nigeria Oil Spill Hits Bayelsa Community

Nigeria Oil Spill, Yenagoa — A fresh crude oil spill has been reported at Obama flow station trunk line belonging to Nigerian Agip Oil Company in Nembe creek, Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa...

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