Amnesty International says the shell oil company must clean up a 3-year-old spill that has wrecked the livelihoods of tens of thousands of farmers and fishermen in southeastern Nigeria.
A report Thursday quoted a British lawyer for the Niger Delta community around the town of Bodo in the Ogoniland area as suggesting the 2008 spill leaked 4,000 barrels a day for 10 weeks. That would make it bigger than Alaska’s Exxon Valdez disaster.
Shell has acknowledged the spill but says it involved a total of 4,000 barrels.
Amnesty says Shell's “prolonged failure” to clean up continues to have “catastrophic consequences.”
It calls for Shell to start a $1 billion, 30-year cleanup of the delta recommended by the U.N.
Shell was forced out of Ogoniland by residents who accused it of a hand in the 1995 hanging of activist Ken Saro-Wiwa.
Source: The Washington Post
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