Oil Spills Inward The Niger Delta
The Niger Delta inward Nigeria is the most productive oil-producing portion inward Africa. It has been relentlessly exploited, by in addition to large to the economical attain goodness of western stone oil companies in addition to corrupt politicians. It has likewise had a devastating touching on on the local environment. Since stone oil drilling started inward the 1950's it is estimated that betwixt nine in addition to xiii 1 yard k barrels of stone oil (1,400,000 in addition to 2,100,000 m3) has been spilled. The regime in addition to stone oil companies accept made trivial attempt to command the environmental touching on of the stone oil industry, nearly e'er deny responsibleness for stone oil spills in addition to essay their hardest to avoid having to clean-up afterward spills.
Amnesty International's Niger Delta Oil Spills is an interactive map of stone oil companionship spills inward the Niger Delta. This map is the final result of a crowd-sourced attempt to analyse stone oil tumble investigation reports yesteryear volunteers around the world. This crowdsourced drive analysed thousands of reports in addition to photographs produced yesteryear companies inward relation to stone oil spills inward the region.
Using the interactive map you lot tin sack persuasion the locations of the stone oil spills derived from reading the stone oil tumble investigation reports. The markers demo the place of spills in addition to are color-coded yesteryear the severity of each spill. The map includes options to filter the results shown yesteryear the 2 principal stone oil companies operating inward the region, Shell in addition to Eni. If you lot click on a marking on the map you lot tin sack persuasion details nigh the tumble in addition to click through to read the stone oil tumble study in addition to whatsoever photos included inward the report.
You tin sack read to a greater extent than nigh how crowdsourcing was used to analyze stone oil tumble records in addition to the consequence of stone oil spills on the Niger Delta inward Amnesty International's Niger Delta Negligence.