Reuters: A landmark U.N. report on 50 years of oil pollution in Nigeria is unlikely to bring the change many had hoped for, after Shell and the national petroleum company went on the defensive and weary local communities said they had seen it all before.
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) report focused on the Ogoniland region and is the most comprehensive, scientific analysis in any area of the vast Niger Delta wetlands, the heartland of Africa's largest energy industry.
The report offers......
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Analysis: Nigerian oil region’s gloomy outlook unmoved by U.N
Posted by Reuters: Joe Brock on August 5th, 2011
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