{"id":4837,"date":"2017-06-05T04:34:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T04:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/amnesty-others-seek-cleanup-of-ogoni-polluted-sites\/"},"modified":"2017-06-05T04:34:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T04:34:28","slug":"amnesty-others-seek-cleanup-of-ogoni-polluted-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/amnesty-others-seek-cleanup-of-ogoni-polluted-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty, others seek cleanup of Ogoni polluted sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"attachment_304281\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oil-pollution-1062x598.jpg?resize=1062%2C598&#038;ssl=1\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/plugins\/ventra-lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif?ssl=1\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oil-pollution-1062x598.jpg 1062w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oil-pollution-640x360.jpg 640w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oil-pollution-320x180.jpg 320w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oil-pollution-281x158.jpg 281w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oil-pollution-562x316.jpg 562w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oil-pollution-531x299.jpg 531w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oil-pollution-487x274.jpg 487w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oil-pollution-974x548.jpg 974w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oil-pollution-600x338.jpg 600w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oil-pollution.jpg 1200w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1062\" height=\"598\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-304281\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1062px) 100vw, 1062px\"\/><noscript><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oil-pollution-1062x598.jpg?resize=1062%2C598&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1062\" height=\"598\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-304281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oil-pollution-1062x598.jpg 1062w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oil-pollution-640x360.jpg 640w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oil-pollution-320x180.jpg 320w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oil-pollution-281x158.jpg 281w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oil-pollution-562x316.jpg 562w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oil-pollution-531x299.jpg 531w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oil-pollution-487x274.jpg 487w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oil-pollution-974x548.jpg 974w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oil-pollution-600x338.jpg 600w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oil-pollution.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1062px) 100vw, 1062px\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ogoni oil spill<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Environmental Rights Action, Amnesty International, and Friends of the Earth Europe have called for the immediate clean-up of Ogoni in Rivers State.One year on from when\u00a0the implementation of a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report on Ogoniland was officially supposed to begin, the communities of the Niger Delta are still waiting for clean-up to start.<\/p>\n<p>Since the current President, Muhammadu Buhari\u00a0was elected the governing structures for the UNEP implementation have been put in place and a coordinator was appointed to <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/real-estate-lead-strategies-2\/\">lead<\/a> HYPREP, the implementation agency. <\/p>\n<p>But six years after publication of the UNEP Environmental Assessment of Ogoniland very little has happened to improve the situation:\u00a0communities in Ogoniland are still waiting for clean-up and still waiting for the clean air, water, and land they need; only one per cent of the promised <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/get-quick-loan-for-real-estate-investment\/\">funds<\/a> have been made available: a reported $10million of the required $1billion budget has been transferred.<\/p>\n<p>Some communities where UNEP found contaminated drinking water wells have never received any alternative source of drinking water; \u00a0Shell continues to use the discredited RENA\u00a0 clean-up process, despite UNEP\u2019s clear recommendation that the process was ineffective and should be discontinued. <\/p>\n<p>The company also says it has revisited 15 oil spill sites identified by UNEP, and carried out further remediation at 6 of those sites. But this is misleading because UNEP found contamination at more than 50 Shell locations. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile an Amnesty International investigation found that heavy contamination remained at four oil spill sites identified by UNEP, despite the fact remediation work had been carried out by Shell. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSix years after the UNEP report the communities of Ogoniland are still unacceptably waiting for action to clean up their land and water. Justice cannot be endlessly delayed, the Nigerian government needs to urgently ensure the plan is implemented immediately,\u201d said Godwin Ojo, Environmental Rights Action\/Friends of the Earth Nigeria. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the oil industry continues discredited practices and fails to ensure Ogoniland is free of pollution. \u201cIt\u2019s clear that Shell is using the Government clean-up process as an excuse for not properly cleaning-up past pollution. It\u2019s responsibility is clear \u2013 it stop and clean-up it\u2019s pollution now,\u201d said the Amnesty International <\/p>\n<p>The UNEP report called for the implementation of emergency measures, the establishment of a $1 billion start up fund and extensive clean-up of Ogoniland.\u201cIt\u2019s overdue that the start-up fund is immediately fully funded and the clean-up operation fully staffed. A clear priority should be the immediate delivery of all emergency and priority measures outlined in the UNEP report \u2013 no more delays, \u2019\u2019 said Colin Roche, Friends of the Earth Europe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a hre=\"http:\/\/guardian.ng\/property\/amnesty-others-seek-cleanup-of-ogoni-polluted-sites\/\"> Guardian <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ogoni oil spill The Environmental Rights Action, Amnesty International, and Friends of the Earth Europe have &hellip; <a title=\"Amnesty, others seek cleanup of Ogoni polluted sites\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/amnesty-others-seek-cleanup-of-ogoni-polluted-sites\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amnesty, others seek cleanup of Ogoni polluted sites<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[3058,522,41],"class_list":["post-4837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities-in-new-markets","tag-location","tag-nigeria","tag-property"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Oil-pollution-1062x598.jpg?fit=1062%2C598&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}