Niger Delta records 40m litres oil spill annually – Dickson vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
The spill, according to a survey could have killed around 16,000 infants within their first month of life.
He added that the State accounts for forty percent of Nigeria’s oil wealth, and hosts the operations of all the major multinational oil companies. On the danger posed by the oil spill, the Governor while citing the 2011 United Nations Environment Programme report, disclosed that life expectancy in the Niger Delta is around 10 years lower than that of the national average.
Governor Dickson while expressing concern over the development said the newly inaugurated Commission will as part of its statutory functions, investigate the environmental and human damage caused by operations of oil companies as a result of oil spills and analyse legislations governing the operations of multinational oil companies in Bayelsa State and in Nigeria.
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