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Article

9 Nov 2015

Author:
Osa Okhomina, Leadership (Nigeria)

Panic In Bayelsa Over Multiple Agip Pipeline Oil Spill

There were signs of panic among the Indigenes of...Bayelsa State following the multiple Oil spillage from the pipeline belonging to the Nigerian Agip Oil Company...Leadership gathered that the breached points of the pipeline were said to be discharging crude oil into the environments of the communities destroying flora and fauna...It was learnt that fear of the outbreak of spill-related epidemic had gripped the people as the impact of the incidents was spreading fast within the swampy environment aided by the current floods...Reacting to the development, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth's [Alagore Morris]...[Said]...“What is at stake whenever there is any spill incident are their environment, health and livelihood".

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