TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON OIL SPILL AT SANTA BARBARA RIVER, NEMBE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, BAYELSA STATE PRESS STATEMENT ON THE INCONCLUSIVE JOINT INVESTIGATION VISIT TO THE NEMBE OIL SPILL SITE ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2021 The Bayelsa State Technical Committee on…
PREMIUM TIMES The regulatory agencies investigating the November 5 oil spill at Oil Mining Lease (OML) 29 at Nembe Bayelsa on Thursday attributed the spillage to sabotage. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that the accident polluted the Santa…
VANGUARD NEWS Joint Investigative Visit (JIV) into the cause and volume of spill from the leak at Oil Mining Lease (OML) 29 suffered a setback following the exclusion of Bayelsa Technical Committee on the incised set up by Gov Douye…
NIGERIAN TRIBUNE A team of civil society organisations, after visiting the site of Aiteo’s OML Well 1 in Nembe, Bayelsa State has faulted the claim by Aiteo that a cleanup of the environment is in full swing. The team also…
PRESS RELEASE – December 3, 2021 The Publish What You Pay (PWYP), Nigeria Coalition is seriously taken aback that for over a month, the OML 29 Santa Barbra oil well 1 in Nembe Local Government of Bayelsa state has continued…
Press Statement – 2 December, 2021 We the undersigned (as well as several other stakeholders) are seriously concerned with the yet-to-be-contained oil and gas blowout at Well #1 at the Santa Barbara River location, OML 29 at Opu Nembe in Bayelsa…
THE GUARDIAN Expert on good control, Victor Ekpenyong, working on the site of the Santa Barbara oil spill in Nembe, Bayelsa State, yesterday, disagreed with reports that two million barrels of crude oil had been discharged into the environment in…
PREMIUM TIMES The Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, on Wednesday returned from visiting the oil spill site in Nembe Local Government Area of the state, describing it as the worst he had seen in his lifetime. The OML 29…
PREMIUM TIMES A Niger Delta Environmental Advocacy group, on Friday, commenced training of hundreds of fishers on coastal environmental monitoring and advocacy, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa capital. The capacity building programme is coming amidst ongoing oil and gas leaks at Aiteo’s…
VANGUARD NEWS Residents of 15 communities in Nembe coastal area of Bayelsa state have cried out that they were finding it difficult to breathe and were dying of hunger following a major oil spill at the Aiteo’s OML29 Well 1…