The Niger Delta inwards Nigeria is the most productive oil-producing share inwards Africa. It has been relentlessly exploited, generally to the economical hit goodness of western crude companies in addition to corrupt politicians. It has too had a devastating touching on the local environment. Since crude drilling started inwards the 1950's it is estimated that betwixt ix in addition to xiii i M 1000 barrels of crude (1,400,000 in addition to 2,100,000 m3) has been spilled. The authorities in addition to crude companies convey made piddling endeavour to command the environmental touching of the crude industry, nearly ever deny responsibleness for crude spills in addition to seek their hardest to avoid having to clean-up later on spills.
Amnesty International's Niger Delta Oil Spills is an interactive map of crude companionship spills inwards the Niger Delta. This map is the resultant of a crowd-sourced endeavour to analyse crude fall investigation reports past times volunteers some the world. This crowdsourced displace analysed thousands of reports in addition to photographs produced past times companies inwards relation to crude spills inwards the region.
Using the interactive map yous tin strength out persuasion the locations of the crude spills derived from reading the crude fall investigation reports. The markers exhibit the location of spills in addition to are color-coded past times the severity of each spill. The map includes options to filter the results shown past times the 2 primary crude companies operating inwards the region, Shell in addition to Eni. If yous click on a marking on the map yous tin strength out persuasion details virtually the fall in addition to click through to read the crude fall study in addition to whatsoever photos included inwards the report.
You tin strength out read to a greater extent than virtually how crowdsourcing was used to analyze crude fall records in addition to the number of crude spills on the Niger Delta inwards Amnesty International's Niger Delta Negligence.
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