Warning warns ignored with the spilled spill “scam”, the blower’s breath counts bbc

A BBC investigation has an energy giant leviations ignored a warping operating of political operation of oil is beset from problems and corruption.

The multinalitional ceaquin in london, together with the government is reported to repeated that jobs to clean contaminated or ended around eight years ago, okay.

But the BBC discover that were repetitively warned on many years that the scheme and the foundation of many oil £ 85), is safe from a chain of trouble.

A nearby observer described the project “with” and a “revision of the” Ogonlailand region continued with the sound pollution hasered – 13 years after a flat of a lid open the lid on the seriousness of their location.

Shell said to the BBC: “The operation environment in the delta nigra expires due to the large scale of illegal activities such as oiling of oil.

“When spills are going on by our polish cleanings and repeatedly, regardless of the cause. If it is an operational spine we have to compensate for people.”

The impassations comes as a civil trial occurred on Thursday to London court, where two explanations of 19.000 abity between their indistance.

The communities say the springs left them without clean water, taxes and fish and create serious risks for public health.

Shell, who will be moved to sell their assets in the country Western African to focus on drilling gas and onshore, indicated that will defend the claims.

Denying the mistake and tells spills in the region were caused by sabotage, stealth and illegal raffle for which the company says it is not possible.

The BBC visited the affected areas in the Naver, its oil impression and gas private in the country, discovered the existence of the oil 68 years ago.

A nice kil 13 million – or 1.5 million tonnes – of crynent oil were spilled for 1958 in at least 7.00 incidents in the navy region.

Spills have left many families worried about their health and to live.

Grace Audi, 37, Live with his partner and two years in Ogal, where there were the orange from the shell infrastructure, the case of the case.

His family and neighbors have only access to a pollutment of a little water, cooking, cooking, once at the cost of £ 5) – in an area where the average wage is less than $ 8.

Is a familiar story to many in ogoniland.

Paulina Aberkeekpe held the barbecie that Lush Greeny once surrounded a community in Corpon – that is not one of those who go on Thursday. She said that the rivers and ponds used to the chest with all kinds of animals and fish, particularly periwinkle.

“The place was greener, not just mangroves, but all of the coast, and there were plains and pirate. But during the spawns and the mother of six years said.

His family had generations survivics on the fishing, until they recommend this years doing.

“Most children – from drinking water – have illnesses. Many are dead. I lost eight children. My husband is sick.

“Because our velties were taken to the people, people in the body are hungry and suffering.”

In 2011, the Environment’s Environment program (delete the major study in the impact of pollution on the rich area of ​​oil.

If you find membership of a community to the drinking water with a carcinogen known to the levels more than 900 times above world organization (which) the health guide. The same chemical, benzene, it was detected in all of their air samples.

He has found that Sites that Shayeruum, the Shigrollum of the Development of the Liger’s Development, Attacking that they still have it ever polluted, you were still contaminated.

The report has concluded that a complete clean of the area would you have 25-30 – and led to the formation of the hydrocarber contamination project (hyprep).

This was initially established by the government dropped in 2012, but not sufficient was initiated – until it had been delivered by a new government in December.

The iPrep was parliad by oil business including the National Women’s Sourvance (Nnpc) and Shell, who gave $ 350 m.

However, the BBC has seen internal documents that suggests shell and government representatives has been leveled by affected fraudulent practices.

A project awareness has talked to the bbc on their concerns – and ask to be anonymous out of afraid of reps.

“It is the common knowledge that we make is a scam is a scam. Most is to deceive the people ogon,” the breath said.

“It’s a withdropping in his more money can be put in well and ended in the pastry and for other people.”

The allegations about failures in uprp includes:

• Contracts are awarded to companies that did not have a relevant experience
• Lab results are forged – sometimes the contaminated label and water so clean
• The project costs being swollen
• Outgoing auditors on the opportunity are blocked to verify cleanliness on sites were well done.

In the minutes of a meeting in 2023, attended the subsidy representants, the epprep, was reported that “engaged” and they are not allowed to degrade the environment. “

In a separate filth reported from the BBC from the same year from bed year, was signalatory lab results were “reported regulations with the deviations.”

In the 2022, united an environment of Nigeria, notice that if nothing changed, the “extremely poor standards of cleanliness is continuing.

The bbc asked the overtp and nigerian government to comment on allegations but did not receive response.

But our investigation has revealed evidence that the shell was aware of the problems.

In a meeting with the British Commissioner to Nigeria in January Mins, minutes of which have been obtained Freedom of “recognized in the agency of the” future fitness “toward this” toward this.

Shell Tell BBC: “The IPrep is a federal government agency and the compound government officials and the five representative.”

It is not the only remediation project in Ogoniland that is alleged to have been botched.

In 2015, shell agreed to a £ 5th agreement for a leader after two catastric spills in 2008 by its infrastructure in the Bodo area.

The Company said the neatly has billed by the middle of the middle of the mediation (BMI), which is prevented as mediator between municipal and the giant park and white-founded by the giant regulatives) is Certified state as 98% complete.

However, the sites visited the BBC in the area and found crude oil oking from the plot and floating on the waters.

Shell and BMI They insist every oil spills in the region are due to theft – known in the industry as “

“There is a plan to call to the bublics to clean these specification area, standing” “Goodfa Dump, a Director to BBC.

“It’s all stakehokens resit, yes, to take its facility, to ensure that the re-oilingual comes from their structures.

“But for areas that have been cleaned. Periariars that some responsibilities is also for community to ensure certain illegal activities did not cause the contraction.”

Shell said it takes active measurements to prevent oil springs caused by oil bunkering.

The company said: “We take preventing steps of this activity and spondies that cause to buy the aircraft on pipels, and by building stores to protect travelers.”

The alleged fails in the cleaning oil come as shower is preparing to sell his Nigerian branch, the SPDC, for renewin the frica and international impiese.

Some locals in the ogoniland have accused the giant of “escape” from cleanliness carefully and the acquies is presumed to have contaminated.

They even be afraid of Shell can also profit from the area from only commercially from the extracted oil in the future.

“And operating Opera opera to oil will have a relevant business on life in their day,” Joe Snape and said to BBC.

“We are incredibly little detail about what these offers will bring.

“It is not clear as rebirth (Africa) acts forward. At least with shell that we have means to hold on to the account.”

Mineral producers, like a spicy oil, count for 90% of exports from nigeria, the more than which one comes from the niger region of delta.

The locals, its main source was agriculture and fishing at the bbcu ‘his house was pumped for proficient oil, from oil originates, from oil originates, from oil oil, from oil oil, oli olive oil, oil oil, from oil oil and for the corrupt policies.

They say they saw nothing benefit, just suffer – as a patience ohboe who blame oily spills for their failure.

“Format can be eaten something with my family and also sells some … but for the last few years that I couldn’t have anything. It’s really a bucket.