Another Shell Oil Spill Pollutes Bayelsa Communities; The Company Tries To Conceal The Leakage Less than two weeks after the Bonga oil spill from Shell operations polluted the Atlantic ocean and the Nigerian coastline, another spill has been reported at the company’s Nembe creek crude pipeline. SaharaReporters checks revealed that the spill occurred almost simultaneously with the Bonga spill as the firm shut in some 70,000 barrels per day crude production in addition to production loss on 200,000 barrels from Bonga. Shell concealed the spill as attention was on the Bonga spill, which the National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) described as the worst environmental pollution in a decade.  (continue reading)
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Another Shell Oil Spill Pollutes Bayelsa Communities; The Company Tries To Conceal The Leakage

Less than two weeks after the Bonga oil spill from Shell operations polluted the Atlantic ocean and the Nigerian coastline, another spill has been reported at the company’s Nembe creek crude pipeline.

SaharaReporters checks revealed that the spill occurred almost simultaneously with the Bonga spill as the firm shut in some 70,000 barrels per day crude production in addition to production loss on 200,000 barrels from Bonga.

Shell concealed the spill as attention was on the Bonga spill, which the National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) described as the worst environmental pollution in a decade.

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