THE GUARDIAN Fresh massive crude oil fire caused by a massive crude oil spill from the wellhead of Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company in its Santa Barbara South Field is currently ravaging Opu-Nembe community in Bayelsa State. The fire,…
THE NATION An offshore rig under construction by Shelf Oil and Gas Drilling Company Nigeria Limited has exploded in the Atlantic Ocean close to Sangana, Brass Local Government Area, Bayelsa State. It was gathered that the explosion, which occurred at…
THE GUARDIAN •US, AfDB, Osinbajo back funding projects •Award of 45 gas flare licences in limbo four years after Nigeria has, in the first 152 days of this year, flared about 85.4 billion standard cubic feet of natural gas, translating…
NIGERIAN TRIBUNE The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) on Tuesday, announced that it had uncovered a toxic waste dump site by Shell in Kdere, Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State. ERA/FoEN in a press statement issued…
NAIRAMETRICS “What would you do if someone dumped nine Olympic swimming pools of oil into your community?” This is the question that is splayed across Amnesty International’s webpage on the Niger Delta oil spills. As it turns out, since 2011,…
THE NATION Bayelsa State government officials, regulatory agencies, environmentalists and representatives of impacted communities have begun preliminary investigations into the January 16, 2021 oil leak near Funiwa offshore facilities in Koluama with their visits. Recall that fishermen around the Atlantic…
LEADERSHIP.NG Host communities in Ugborodo, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State have sent an SOS message to President Muhammadu Buhari over threats to lives, assets and the ecology of over 50 communities in the area resulting from…
THIS DAY Fishermen from the Niger Delta region operating under the auspices of Artisanal Fishermen Association of Nigeria (ARFAN) have urged the federal government to prevail on Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO) Limited to pay the $3.6 billion…
THIS DAY A number of community leaders in the oil-bearing Niger Delta region have expressed worries over the damages irresponsible oil mining has done on their lives and environment over the years, and now want these addressed before new licenses…
VANGUARD The federal regulatory agency, National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA, has again waded into the lingering face-off between indigenes of oil-rich Ikarama community in Yenagoa Local Government Area, Bayelsa State and Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, over…