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Mongabay: Fifty years of oil spills in Nigeria's now infamous Ogoniland region will take up to three decades and over a billion dollars ($1 billion for just the first five years) to restore environments to healthy conditions, according to a new independent report by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). The most thorough study to date has found that widespread pollution has hit the Niger Delta even harder than assumed with devastating impacts on fishing grounds and community health. Last week Shell,......
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Oil horror in Nigeria: 30 years, one billion dollars to clean-up
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 8th, 2011
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