Shell’s wildly inaccurate reporting of Niger Delta oil spill exposed | Amnesty International

23 April 2012

Shell’s wildly inaccurate reporting of Niger Delta oil spill exposed

A major oil spill in the Niger Delta was far worse than Shell previously admitted, it has been revealed. © Amnesty International - The difference is staggering: even using the lower end of the Accufacts estimate, the volume of oil spilt at Bodo was more than 60 times the volume Shell has repeatedly claimed leaked. - Audrey Gaughran, Director of Global Issues at Amnesty International 

Mon, 23/04/2012
 

A major oil spill in the Niger Delta was far worse than Shell previously admitted, according to an independent assessment obtained by Amnesty International and the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD), which exposes how the oil giant dramatically under-estimated the quantities involved.

The spill in 2008, caused by a fault in a Shell pipeline, resulted in tens of thousands of barrels of oil polluting the land and creek surrounding Bodo, a Niger Delta town of some 69,000 people.

The previously unpublished assessment, carried out by US firm Accufacts Inc. found that between 1,440 and 4,320 barrels of oil were flooding the Bodo area each day following the leak. The Nigerian regulators have confirmed that the spill lasted for 72 days. 

FOR THE FULL ARTICLE CLICK HERE: Shell’s wildly inaccurate reporting of Niger Delta oil spill exposed | Amnesty International