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2 Nov 2015

Author:
Amnesty International

"Slick PR can't disguise Shell's devastating oil pollution in Nigeria", says Amnesty

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'Slick PR can't disguise Shell's devastating oil pollution in Nigeria', 3 Nov 2015:…[N]o amount of…PR can hide the…truth about Shell's ongoing pollution in…Nigeria’s…Niger Delta…Shell still hasn’t come up with…ideas for how to stop this…or how to clean up the environment properly afterwards…'Everything just died…[It] destroyed all the aquatic life in the stream where we used to fetch water - our farmlands, every living thing there…'[says] Barine Ateni, a farmer…Shell claims to have cleaned up the site…but our new research shows…this…isn’t true….[T]he United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) found pollution many times above the government’s safety limits. When our researchers visited…four years after the most recent spill, we saw soil soaked with crude oil…[w]ater with an oily sheen…running down the hill…where many villagers…have…farms and fishponds.   'We are sad and angry, and we have been made poor,' says Barine. It’s easy to see why. Shell’s toxic legacy still lingers…its half-hearted clean ups having changed…nothing….[I]n the Niger Delta, oil pollution has destroyed the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people…[and] communities…have been driven…into poverty…

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