Fresh oil pollution reported in Nigeria region – ‘It’s a very severe spill’
Yenagoa, Nigeria, October 24 (AFP) – A Nigerian environmental group on Monday claimed an oil spill from a pipeline operated by Italian firm ENI had badly polluted an area in the south of Africa’s largest oil producer. The spill which reportedly occurred on September 27 is said to have polluted the swamps of the Ikeinghenbiri area of Bayelsa state in the main oil-producing Niger Delta region. “The volume of the spill is very high and in some cases it is difficult to separate the crude from the water,” Environmental Rights Action field monitor Morris Alagoa told AFP a day after he visited the village. The group’s executive director, who is also chairman of Friends of the Earth International, Nnimmo Bassey, said, “I understand it’s a very severe spill.” Alagoa said he found that “in some places the whole length of the swamp is black (with oil).” […]
