Tag:Oil spill

Pollution

Pollution: Group urges govt to monitor private sector operations

The Centre For Environment Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) has urged the Federal Government to roll out policies that will monitor the operations of...

Michael Simire - March 14, 2021

Pollution

Greek coy denies responsibility for oil spill along Israeli coast

Managers of the Greek oil tanker Minerva Helen on Wednesday, February 24, 2021 denied accusations that their company was responsible for a major oil...

Michael Simire - February 24, 2021

Pollution

Group seeks probe of crude oil leak in Bayelsa community

The Environmental Right Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has called for the investigation and public disclosure of oil leaks reported in Bayelsa communities. The...

Michael Simire - February 21, 2021

Pollution

Nigeria spends millions cleaning oil spills – but illegal refiners are still in business

The sunrise in the morning of June 2, 2016, did not only bring vitamin D; it also brought hope to the Ogonis. That day,...

Michael Simire - February 12, 2021

Pollution

MOSOP President decries negative impact of gas flaring, oil spillage

President of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), Mr Fegalo Nsuke, has decried the impact of gas flaring and oil spillage...

Michael Simire - February 9, 2021

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Reactions as Dutch court orders Shell Nigeria to compensate farmers over spills

A Dutch Appeal court in the Hague, on Friday, ordered the Nigerian branch of Shell to compensate four farmers for damage to their land...

Michael Simire - January 29, 2021

Pollution

NOSDRA, environmentalists, trace Bayelsa oil spill to Conoil’s facility

Investigations into the Jan. 16, 2021 oil spill around the Funiwa offshore facilities off the Bayelsa Atlantic coastline has taken regulators and environmentalists beyond...

Michael Simire - January 29, 2021

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