Timeline: Half a century of oil spills in Nigeria’s Ogoniland
Al JazeeraSince oil was discovered in commercial quantities in Nigeria in 1958, thousands of oil spill incidents have happened. Between 1976 and 1991, more than two million barrels of oil polluted Ogoniland in 2,976 separate oil spills as Nigeria became one of the world’s largest oil producers. In 2020 and 2021, Nigeria’s National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency recorded 822 combined oil spills, totalling 28,003 barrels of oil spewed into the environment. August 2011 After a class action suit in the UK, Shell accepts responsibility for the double rupture of the Bodo-Bonny Trans-Niger Pipeline that caused two massive oil spills in Bodo. November 13, 2014 As revealed by Amnesty International, court documents show Shell repeatedly made false claims about the size and impact of the two oil spills in Bodo in 2008.
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Oil spill from Shell pipeline fouls farms and a river in a long-polluted part of Nigeria
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