The oil spill site.
By Valentine Amanze
Environmental Defenders Network (EDEN) has called on the National Oil Spill Detection and Remediation Agency and Shell to immediately find solution to a crude oil spill from a Shell pipeline along Obololi creek in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.
In a statement issued by the Media and Communications Manager, EDEN, Elvira Jordan, the environment protection group said that the current oil spill occurred on the night of Sunday February 16, 2025.
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EDEN lamented that it was the first spill on the community river or creek, the people’s only source of water for everything.
It described Obololi as a community where pipelines belonging to Oando and Shell traversed.
“Shell, according to community folks, laid this pipeline since 1973 and has not replaced it since then.
“The people urgently need drinking water. Shell should immediately mobilize for JIV and follow up with cleanup, remediation and compensation,” EDEN stated.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Executive Director of EDEN, Alalgoa Morris, on Thursday February 20, 2025 led the Southern Ijaw Local Government Chairman and the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Environment to visit the impacted area on.
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