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Environmental Assessment of Ogoniland [1]

The environmental restoration of Ogoniland could prove to be the world's most wide-ranging and long term oil clean-up exercise ever undertaken if contaminated drinking water, land, creeks and important ecosystems such as mangroves are to be brought back to full, productive health. A major new independent scientific assessment, carried out by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), shows that pollution from over 50 years of oil operations in the region has penetrated further and deeper than many may have supposed.

 


http://www.unep.org/newscentre/Default.aspx?DocumentID=2649&ArticleID=8827&l=en [2]

Publication Date: 
05/08/2011
UNEP [3]
Tags:
Oil Pollution [4], Nigeria [5], Water Pollution [6], Water Polluting Industries [7], Industrial Pollution [8], Oil Exploration [9], Groundwater Quality [10], Land Pollution [11]
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[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/oil-exploration
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/groundwater-quality
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-pollution