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Shell Finally Accepts Liability for Nigeria Oil Spills Requiring $1 Billion Clean Up

08/05/2011
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  • Illegal oil renfinery in Ogoniland
    While the Gulf oil spill was no doubt horrific, it's nothing compared to what's been going on in <strong>Nigeria for decades</strong>. In 2008, two Shell oil spills wiped out the entire community of Bodo, and for nearly 50 years prior to that, oil spills occurred with shocking regularity. After long denying responsibility for the massive 2008 spills, which sent <strong>11 million gallons</strong> of crude oil into a region of the Niger Delta, Shell has finally taken responsibility for the disaster....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/shell-finally-accepts-liability-for-nigeria-oil-spills-requiring-1-billion-clean-up/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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  • Bodo Oil Spill ruined fishing docks
    While the Gulf oil spill was no doubt horrific, it's nothing compared to what's been going on in <strong>Nigeria for decades</strong>. In 2008, two Shell oil spills wiped out the entire community of Bodo, and for nearly 50 years prior to that, oil spills occurred with shocking regularity. After long denying responsibility for the massive 2008 spills, which sent <strong>11 million gallons</strong> of crude oil into a region of the Niger Delta, Shell has finally taken responsibility for the disaster....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/shell-finally-accepts-liability-for-nigeria-oil-spills-requiring-1-billion-clean-up/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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  • Ogoniland Region Oil Spill pipes
    While the Gulf oil spill was no doubt horrific, it's nothing compared to what's been going on in <strong>Nigeria for decades</strong>. In 2008, two Shell oil spills wiped out the entire community of Bodo, and for nearly 50 years prior to that, oil spills occurred with shocking regularity. After long denying responsibility for the massive 2008 spills, which sent <strong>11 million gallons</strong> of crude oil into a region of the Niger Delta, Shell has finally taken responsibility for the disaster....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/shell-finally-accepts-liability-for-nigeria-oil-spills-requiring-1-billion-clean-up/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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  • Niger Delta oil spill damge
    While the Gulf oil spill was no doubt horrific, it's nothing compared to what's been going on in <strong>Nigeria for decades</strong>. In 2008, two Shell oil spills wiped out the entire community of Bodo, and for nearly 50 years prior to that, oil spills occurred with shocking regularity. After long denying responsibility for the massive 2008 spills, which sent <strong>11 million gallons</strong> of crude oil into a region of the Niger Delta, Shell has finally taken responsibility for the disaster....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/shell-finally-accepts-liability-for-nigeria-oil-spills-requiring-1-billion-clean-up/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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  • Ogoniland Region Oil Spill
    While the Gulf oil spill was no doubt horrific, it's nothing compared to what's been going on in <strong>Nigeria for decades</strong>. In 2008, two Shell oil spills wiped out the entire community of Bodo, and for nearly 50 years prior to that, oil spills occurred with shocking regularity. After long denying responsibility for the massive 2008 spills, which sent <strong>11 million gallons</strong> of crude oil into a region of the Niger Delta, Shell has finally taken responsibility for the disaster....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/shell-finally-accepts-liability-for-nigeria-oil-spills-requiring-1-billion-clean-up/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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  • Ogoniland Region Oil Spill
    While the Gulf oil spill was no doubt horrific, it's nothing compared to what's been going on in <strong>Nigeria for decades</strong>. In 2008, two Shell oil spills wiped out the entire community of Bodo, and for nearly 50 years prior to that, oil spills occurred with shocking regularity. After long denying responsibility for the massive 2008 spills, which sent <strong>11 million gallons</strong> of crude oil into a region of the Niger Delta, Shell has finally taken responsibility for the disaster....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/shell-finally-accepts-liability-for-nigeria-oil-spills-requiring-1-billion-clean-up/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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  • Ogoniland Region Oil Spill
    While the Gulf oil spill was no doubt horrific, it's nothing compared to what's been going on in <strong>Nigeria for decades</strong>. In 2008, two Shell oil spills wiped out the entire community of Bodo, and for nearly 50 years prior to that, oil spills occurred with shocking regularity. After long denying responsibility for the massive 2008 spills, which sent <strong>11 million gallons</strong> of crude oil into a region of the Niger Delta, Shell has finally taken responsibility for the disaster....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/shell-finally-accepts-liability-for-nigeria-oil-spills-requiring-1-billion-clean-up/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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Illegal oil renfinery in Ogoniland

While the Gulf oil spill was no doubt horrific, it's nothing compared to what's been going on in Nigeria for decades. In 2008, two Shell oil spills wiped out the entire community of Bodo, and for nearly 50 years prior to that, oil spills occurred with shocking regularity. After long denying responsibility for the massive 2008 spills, which sent 11 million gallons of crude oil into a region of the Niger Delta, Shell has finally taken responsibility for the disaster....

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