Monday, 4 August 2014

Nigeria, Shell failing to clean oil pollution, report says

LONDON (Bloomberg) -- Nigeria’s government and Royal Dutch Shell Plc have failed to act on a United Nations 2011 report on oil pollution in Ogoniland in the Niger delta, according to an Amnesty International joint assessment. A recommendation by the United Nations Environmental Program to set up a $1 billion fund to clean up contaminated land in the region hasn’t been implemented and both the government and The Hague-based Shell have taken little action, according to the report published by Amnesty, Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development, Environmental Rights Action, Friends of the Earth Europe, and Platform.


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