(FILES) This hand-out photograph released on October 13, 2004 by the ethnic pressure group the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, shows the aftermath of an oil pipeline leak and subsequent fire in the southern Nigerian village of Goi, in the Niger delta region. - Oil giant Shell has agreed to pay around 95 million euros to communities in southern Nigeria over crude spills in 1970, the company and the community's lawyer said on Wednesday. (Photo by STR / Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People / AFP) / -----EDITORS NOTE --- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - NO ARCHIVES
(FILES) This hand-out photograph released on October 13, 2004 by the ethnic pressure group the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, shows the aftermath of an oil pipeline leak and subsequent fire in the southern Nigerian village of Goi, in the Niger delta region. - Oil giant Shell has agreed to pay around 95 million euros to communities in southern Nigeria over crude spills in 1970, the company and the community's lawyer said on Wednesday. (Photo by STR / Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People / AFP) / -----EDITORS NOTE --- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - NO ARCHIVES
Ogoni cleanupUnited States of America chapter of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) has expressed concern that the plan by the Federal Government to resume oil exploration with palliatives will violate the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Report.
A statement signed by its President, Elder DineBari A. Kpuinen, said: “So far, the government spent $360 million on the cleanup of Ogoni with nothing to show, while the oil firm had spent $71 billion on the project and compensation for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico over 10 years ago.”
They called for total revalidation of the UNEP Report because of the black soot rain that causes internal bleedin,g which was not envisaged in the original study and report by the United Nations, stressing, “Oil production in the area is unacceptable.”
