Fresh oil spill hits Bayelsa community
►one of the six communities in Okordia clan has been hit by a fresh oil spill from a facility owned and operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company.
►The latest incident is coming less than three weeks after the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency
Ikarama,one of the six communities in Okordia clan, Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, has been hit by a fresh oil spill from a facility owned and operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company.
The spill, which was noticed last Wednesday by the community folks, spewing high from Shell’s Okordia manifold, is believed to have been caused by suspected vandals.
The Okordia manifold, it was learnt, receives crude oil from oil wells operated by Shell in JK4 (Edagberi/Betterland community, with over 40 oil wells) and those it has in Biseni.
Though the spill, it was learnt, was clamped two days after by personnel deployed to the area by the oil major, the natives decried the incessant spills and the adverse effect on their environment.
The latest incident is coming less than three weeks after the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA, organised what it called community-based disaster risk reduction plan on the dangers of oil pipeline vandalism and the resultant environmental pollution in Yenagoa. The two main communities invited were Ikarama and Kalaba.
The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth led by its Bayelsa Field Coordinator, Alagoa Morris, told Vanguard that when they arrived the spill site Thursday morning, crude oil was noticed spraying into the air like a fountain, higher than some palm trees above the ground.
The latest incident is coming less than three weeks after the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA, organised what it called community-based disaster risk reduction plan on the dangers of oil pipeline vandalism and the resultant environmental pollution in Yenagoa. The two main communities invited were Ikarama and Kalaba.
The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth led by its Bayelsa Field Coordinator, Alagoa Morris, told Vanguard that when they arrived the spill site Thursday morning, crude oil was noticed spraying into the air like a fountain, higher than some palm trees above the ground.
