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In 2011, a report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) noted that — as a matter of emergency — before any clean-up exercise is done in Ogoniland, in Rivers state, potable water should first be provided.
Beatrice Barine still prepares meals with polluted fish her husband, a fisherman, gets from Nuumu-Goi River in Goi community, Gokana Local Council of Rivers State despite the report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which warned that water and crops in the area are highly polluted and harmful to the body.
Communities impacted by crude oil spills along Nigeria’s coastline are successfully taking oil companies to task.
The fossil fuel industry faces a reckoning in the Niger Delta after disasters made it one of the most polluted places on the planet
Global environmental justice campaigners heralded a Dutch court's ruling Friday that Royal Dutch Shell's Nigerian subsidiary must pay punitive restitution to Nigerian villages for oil spill contamination that brought death, illness, and destruction to Nigerian farmers and communities. "After 13 years, justice!" tweeted Friends of the Earth Europe.