Shell messed up the Atlantic: Tens of thousands of barrels of oil flowing into the sea before Nigeria | newsevv
LAGOS taz | Shell will finally pay. The Nigerian Senate has called late on Thursday afternoon and will thus exacerbate the line against the oil companies. This was triggered by probably the greatest oil disaster off the Nigerian coast since 1998: From the Bonga oil field - named after a species of fish - should be 30,000 to 40,000 barrels of oil flowed the sand dollar middle of the week to the open sea.
"Shell must immediately take all necessary the sand dollar measures and compensate us financially," Bukola Saraki, Senator and Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Ecology, the Nigerian radio station Voice of Nigeria has said. It is an unusually significant exposures to the multinational companies. In Nigeria, for years have been available, the state agency Nosdra (National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency) to keep track of every oil spill precise records. the sand dollar But for the politicians the sand dollar in the capital Abuja is the Niger Delta, where does it come almost daily to oil spills, been far away in the past.
For pollution hardly anyone has traditionally interested in Nigeria. Those who do not get yourself out of the delta, was most annoyed when the issue was even addressed. Therefore, the change in thinking is now somewhat surprising. However: This procedure could bring a lot of money Nigeria. An understatement?
"That's been the case in previous disasters," said Bassey. Incomprehensible for the prominent environmentalists beyond: In August, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) published a much-anticipated long-term study of pollution in Ogoniland by Shell. There were billions in compensation claims in the room, the catastrophic conditions in the Niger Delta had moved into international consciousness. "And now makes Shell ahead and pollutes our coast," said Bassey.
The company itself has reacted with regret at the incident. In a press release was Mutiu Sunmonu, Chairman the sand dollar of Shell Nigeria, proclaim: It was very concerned about the incident and will do everything to clean the affected areas as soon as possible. In any case, the oil film was very thin. Massive Shell Oil Spill Approaches Nigerian Coast
Communities along Nigeria's Niger Delta have been put on alert Following a major oil spill from the oil giant Shell. Satellite images the sand dollar indicate the spill has spread over 356 square miles, Appearing to be the worst in the area in over a decade. A massive oil slick is making its way to the Nigerian coast, threatening local wildlife and massive pollution along the shore. Shell says less than 40,000 barrels have leaked so far, but Nigeria's National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency says the spill Could be three times as large. The spill comes just four months after the United Nations said it would take 30 years and around $ 1 billion for a small section of the delta to recover from environmental damage caused by Shell and other companies.
The flow of oil polluting the Gulf of Mexico for months seems to have come to a halt. But this small success of the oil company BP in the fight against the worst environmental disaster in US history does not alter the consequences that the toxic oil to the environment on the coasts, the animals and plants in the sea and for the people, the sand dollar especially in Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama will have. It will take decades to nature will recover from this damage.
This is completely different in the Niger Delta in West Africa: Every year, 13 million barrels of oil there pollute the swampy land and coastline. This corresponds to the amount that ran into the sea off Alaska in the wreck of the tanker Exxon Valdez in 1989. From time to tell journalists from the region - but with the response to the oil spill in the US, can not be compared.
The journalist Joerg Brase was for the ZDF Auslandsjournal in the Niger Delta and has met people who seek between rotten drill bits for fish or produce fuel under the most primitive conditions in illegal the sand dollar refineries.
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"Nigeria alarmed: New oil pollution in the sea after a UN study has already found damage caused by oil production over the past decades, the elimination of only 30 years old and need one billion US dollars the sand dollar in Ogoniland. And in Ogoniland is only a small part of the eligible areas of the Niger Delta. More than two decades, the Ogoni had already protested against the contamination of their rivers, fields and breath air through the oil exploration by Shell. The military government had then changed its speaker, author, Ken Saro-Wiwa executed. A US court would schli
LAGOS taz | Shell will finally pay. The Nigerian Senate has called late on Thursday afternoon and will thus exacerbate the line against the oil companies. This was triggered by probably the greatest oil disaster off the Nigerian coast since 1998: From the Bonga oil field - named after a species of fish - should be 30,000 to 40,000 barrels of oil flowed the sand dollar middle of the week to the open sea.
"Shell must immediately take all necessary the sand dollar measures and compensate us financially," Bukola Saraki, Senator and Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Ecology, the Nigerian radio station Voice of Nigeria has said. It is an unusually significant exposures to the multinational companies. In Nigeria, for years have been available, the state agency Nosdra (National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency) to keep track of every oil spill precise records. the sand dollar But for the politicians the sand dollar in the capital Abuja is the Niger Delta, where does it come almost daily to oil spills, been far away in the past.
For pollution hardly anyone has traditionally interested in Nigeria. Those who do not get yourself out of the delta, was most annoyed when the issue was even addressed. Therefore, the change in thinking is now somewhat surprising. However: This procedure could bring a lot of money Nigeria. An understatement?
"That's been the case in previous disasters," said Bassey. Incomprehensible for the prominent environmentalists beyond: In August, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) published a much-anticipated long-term study of pollution in Ogoniland by Shell. There were billions in compensation claims in the room, the catastrophic conditions in the Niger Delta had moved into international consciousness. "And now makes Shell ahead and pollutes our coast," said Bassey.
The company itself has reacted with regret at the incident. In a press release was Mutiu Sunmonu, Chairman the sand dollar of Shell Nigeria, proclaim: It was very concerned about the incident and will do everything to clean the affected areas as soon as possible. In any case, the oil film was very thin. Massive Shell Oil Spill Approaches Nigerian Coast
Communities along Nigeria's Niger Delta have been put on alert Following a major oil spill from the oil giant Shell. Satellite images the sand dollar indicate the spill has spread over 356 square miles, Appearing to be the worst in the area in over a decade. A massive oil slick is making its way to the Nigerian coast, threatening local wildlife and massive pollution along the shore. Shell says less than 40,000 barrels have leaked so far, but Nigeria's National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency says the spill Could be three times as large. The spill comes just four months after the United Nations said it would take 30 years and around $ 1 billion for a small section of the delta to recover from environmental damage caused by Shell and other companies.
The flow of oil polluting the Gulf of Mexico for months seems to have come to a halt. But this small success of the oil company BP in the fight against the worst environmental disaster in US history does not alter the consequences that the toxic oil to the environment on the coasts, the animals and plants in the sea and for the people, the sand dollar especially in Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama will have. It will take decades to nature will recover from this damage.
This is completely different in the Niger Delta in West Africa: Every year, 13 million barrels of oil there pollute the swampy land and coastline. This corresponds to the amount that ran into the sea off Alaska in the wreck of the tanker Exxon Valdez in 1989. From time to tell journalists from the region - but with the response to the oil spill in the US, can not be compared.
The journalist Joerg Brase was for the ZDF Auslandsjournal in the Niger Delta and has met people who seek between rotten drill bits for fish or produce fuel under the most primitive conditions in illegal the sand dollar refineries.
E-Mail (required) (address will not be published)
"Nigeria alarmed: New oil pollution in the sea after a UN study has already found damage caused by oil production over the past decades, the elimination of only 30 years old and need one billion US dollars the sand dollar in Ogoniland. And in Ogoniland is only a small part of the eligible areas of the Niger Delta. More than two decades, the Ogoni had already protested against the contamination of their rivers, fields and breath air through the oil exploration by Shell. The military government had then changed its speaker, author, Ken Saro-Wiwa executed. A US court would schli
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