The case of the current
oil spillage in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State should not be given graveyard silence, less the Government may be inviting the wrath of the people.»
ABUJA — President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, in Nairobi, Kenya, said that non-clean up of
oil spillages in the Niger Delta especially in Ogoniland, was responsible for the militancy the region witnessed in times past.
Not exact matches
«The devastation caused by
oil spillage has destroyed many lives and livelihoods and is clearly one of the reasons why many people
in that region lost faith
in Government and resorted to the many criminal activities we are seeing
in the region today.
«Apart from the disruption of normal
oil flow across the pipelines and loss
in revenue, this economic crime has on many occasions resulted
in deadly fire and
oil spillage that have claimed many lives and damage to the environment
in several communities.
NAN also recalls that the
oil producing areas of Akwa Ibom State had witnessed over three major
oil spillages from ExxonMobil facility
in 2016.
Three communities
in the Niger Delta region, Abacheke, Ugada and Etwkuru, all of Egbema
in Ohaji / Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State, have lamented shortage of food due to the devastation of their farmlands by
oil spillages.
this is interesting topic, i have only ever seen
oil being drained, never extracted
in this manner, but this certainly looks cleaner, less
spillage or mess
In 1969 - 70 (when a
spillage from the
oil tanker Torrey Canyon threatened the Cornish coast) she told Mullins:
It's not based on a numerical model of how
oil would likely move and disperse if a well off Delaware really did have a major problem; that's a function of wind, tide, current, the properties of the
oil, the rate and quantity of
spillage, and of course the effectiveness of our efforts to contain the
oil in such an incident.
But due to legal guidelines that fail to define diluted bitumen — the substance that inundated Mayflower — as
oil, the corporation may not be required to contribute to the federal government's
oil spillage cleanup fund — making their donations pocket change
in comparison to the cost of contributing to the cleanup fund.