Shell: Own Up and Pay Up to Clean Up the Niger Delta - Petition (Amnesty International)

Oil contamination has devastated the lives of the people in the Niger Delta -- destroyed their livelihoods, undermined their access to clean water and food, and put their health at serious risk. Hundreds of thousands of people are affected, particularly the poorest. The failure by the oil industry to properly address pollution exacerbates human suffering and environmental damage. For example, the two major oil spills which occurred in 2008 in Bodo, Ogoniland continued for weeks before they were stopped, and three years on Shell has still not cleaned up the pollution.

The Guardian: Shell must pay $1bn to deal with Niger Delta oil spills, Amnesty urges - Rights group says oil giant's 2008 spills have wrecked livelihoods of 69,000 people and will take 30 years to clean up. The report by the human rights group to mark the 16th anniversary of the execution of environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa by Nigerian authorities said the two spills in 2008 in Bodo, Ogoniland, had wrecked the livelihoods of 69,000 people.