With oil companies gearing up to divest from fossil fuels, groups in Niger state have called on the Norway Oil Fund to ensure that they clean up the
environmental disasters that they have caused in the past 63 years of their operations in the region.
10 years later, human rights groups, led by the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, visited Oslo, Norway, to raise awareness about environmental damage in the Niger Delta. They met with politicians and the Oil Fund to highlight Norway’s responsibility for climate and environmental impact abroad.
“High concentrations of heavy metals were found in the food chain across testing sites, including chromium, cadmium, zinc, nickel and lead. Every single ground water sample exceeded the recommended maximum safe level of polyaromatic hydrocarbons by at least 100 times, with one of the samples taken from Egbebiri exceeding the WHO limit by over one million times.
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