Emergency response agencies and security operatives have been alerted to intervene in an oil spill that has occurred in Ogoniland, one of the oil producing communities in Southern Nigeria. The spill is reported to have occurred at Bunu-Tai, in Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State. This is happening 22 years after the first oil spill was recorded there.
In a 15 year period from 1976-1991, there were reportedly 2,976 oil spills of about 2.1 million barrels of oil in Ogoniland accounting for about 40% of the total oil spills of Royal Dutch/Shell company worldwide.
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