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12 Nov 2015

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News24 Nigeria

Reps want Agip Oil to contain spill in Bayelsa

"Reps want Agip Oil to contain spill in Bayelsa", 12 Nov 2015: The [Nigerian] House of Representatives...[has] urged the Nigerian Agip Oil Company to clean up recent multiple oil spills...in Bayelsa...[A motion sponsored by Representative Douye Diri]...which came under matter[s] of urgent national public importance was on the need to address severe pollution of the Niger Delta environment due to alarmingly high incidences of preventable oil spills..."The lives and livelihood of the people of the Niger Delta has become too cheap and dispensable to the oil companies in their unbridled quest for profit [said Diri]."

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