Indigenes of the coastal fishing settlement of Aghoro, Ekeremor Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, have bemoaned the devastating oil spill purportedly from the 24 -inch Trans-Ramos pipeline owned by oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, which affected fishing, their primary source of livelihood, and polluted rivers, creeks and rivulets. NDV learned that the crude […]
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An oil spill off Borneo island that led to five deaths and the declaration of a state of emergency was caused by a ruptured undersea pipe, Indonesia’s national oil company Pertamina said Wednesday. The leakage, which started in waters near Balikpapan city early Saturday, has spread at least 26 kilometres (16 miles) and coated large […]
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Several oil slicks have been found in waters around a sunken Iranian tanker ship in the East China Sea in a spill that is growing and whose potentially major impact on the marine environment is still being assessed. The State Oceanic Administration said late Monday oil slicks around the site of the sunken ship were […]
Read MoreThis short clip was curb from twitter and it on how the rift between the major oil producing company in Nigeria ‘Shell’ and ‘The Ogonis’ all started and still going on up until today. What is the permanent way out?
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Beijing’s city government has ordered 1,200 factories near the Chinese capital, including an oil refinery run by state oil major Sinopec and a Cofco food plant, to either shut or cut output following its highest possible air pollution warning. Environmental authorities issued a red alert that started on Friday night and will run until Wednesday […]
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OIL giant, Royal Dutch Shell, is facing fresh environmental claims in the London High Court from two Nigerian communities who alleged that they had suffered from repeated large-scale oil spills from the company’s pipelines in the Niger Delta. The two separate lawsuits were filed on Wednesday, with Leigh Day representing the communities after winning an […]
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