"Bayelsa recorded 1,000 oil spills in 2014, says govt", 17 Oct 2016

The Bayelsa State Government has said the state recorded 1,000 oil spills in 2014. It decried the menace that oil spills and gas flaring among oil multinationals posed to the environment. The government regretted that none of the oil companies had addressed the environmental problems arising from their activities. In a statement...the government said compensation was not paid to the affected communities...[D]espite the huge spills in 2014, there was no proper remediation of impacted sites...