Nigeria’s Massive Oil Cleanup Could Take Decades And A Billion Dollars
A $1bn clean-up of one of the world’s most oil-polluted regions will be officially launched on Thursday [6/1/2016] by the Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari. But it will be at least 18 months before full remedial work starts in Ogoniland in the Niger delta, and possibly 25 years before all the swamps, creeks, fishing grounds and mangroves are restored after decades of spills by Shell, the national oil firm and other oil companies.