The True Tragedy: Bodo Oil Spills
1,220 views · Published 10 November 2011 · 4:09 · Indexed 15 October 2026
Channel: Amnesty International USA · 2011 · Nonprofits & Activism
http://eyesonnigeria.org/ In August and December 2008, two major oil spills disrupted the lives of the 69,000 or so people living in Bodo, a town in Ogoniland in the Niger Delta. Both spills continued for weeks before they were stopped. Three years on, the prolonged failure of the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (Shell), a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, to clean up the oil that was spilled, continues to have catastrophic consequences for the Bodo community. Help us caption & translate this video! http://amara.org/v/CEUf/
