The $10m (£6.5m) investigation by the UN environment programme (UNEP), paid for by Shell, will say that only 10% of oil pollution in Ogoniland has been caused by equipment failures and company negligence, and concludes that the rest has come from local people illegally stealing oil and sabotaging company pipelines.
The shock disclosure was made by Mike Cowing, the head of a UN team of 100 people who have been studying environmental damage in the region.'
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Yet more corruption.
ReplyDeleteIf the investigation was paid for by Shell, then the end result is not unsurprising.
Besides, the $10m (£6.5m) paid for the investigation could have quite easily gone to cleaning up the Delat region, where they are tapping into the oil, or isn't this common sense.
Instead of wasting millions of money on a fake investigation, just clean up where you have polluted. It's not rocket science.
These companies are just so well seasoned in exploiting innocent people for their own greedy purposes.