Big Oil’s dirty legacy in Nigeria

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Big Oil’s dirty legacy in Nigeria - Financial Times

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Who will clean up the environmental mess when Shell and others pull out of the Niger Delta?

One of the reasons Shell persevered with SPDC for as long as it did is that gas produced from the SPDC JV’s onshore oilfields is needed to feed Nigeria LNG, which produces 7 per cent of the world’s liquefied natural gas.Shell owns 25.6 per cent of the lucrative project and is the operator.

Almost immediately after Shell and other international companies began extracting oil, Okpabi says there was a noticeable change in the area, evidenced by wilting fruits on contaminated farmlands and dead birds and animals.“Families used to cultivate their own food,” Okpabi, a US-educated criminologist who is now king of Ogale, says of his community before the oilmen came.