Cleanup of oil-polluted Nigerian state would cost US$12 billion: Report
ABUJA, Nigeria: Cleaning up decades-long oil pollution and restoring environmental health in just one of Nigeria's crude-producing states will cost at least US$12 billion, investigators said on Tuesday .
"At least US$12 billion" is needed to"clean up the soil and drinking water, reduce the health risk to people and restore mangrove forests essential to stopping floods". In a written statement to AFP, Shell said it had not seen the report and could therefore not respond to its conclusions at this time.
The wider Niger Delta, according to the report, has suffered the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez disaster every single year for 50 years.The report pointed to the potentially far-reaching impact on health from oil and gas pollution.
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