{"id":6339,"date":"2019-11-04T09:20:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T06:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6339"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:39","slug":"nigeria-oil-spills-spark-environmental-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/04\/nigeria-oil-spills-spark-environmental-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Oil Spills &#8216;Spark Environmental Genocide&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By BBC Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Archbishop of York\nhas called for urgent action to stop the oil spills that are devastating\ncommunities in Nigeria\u2019s Bayelsa state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking exclusively to the BBC ahead of the interim report of\nthe Bayelsa State Oil and Environmental Commission, which he chairs, the\narchbishop said that a slow environmental genocide is taking place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bayelsa is the region where oil was first discovered in the\ncountry in the 1950s. There are hundreds of oil spills each year in Nigeria,\nsome caused by equipment failure \u2013 others by sabotage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr John Sentamu, who is the second most senior clergyman in the\nChurch of England, said that oil companies needed to end a culture of double\nstandards in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He accused Shell, AGIP and other oil companies of reaping\nenvironmental devastation and ignoring pleas for assistance from the people of\nBayelsa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both Shell and AGIP say that they follow international standards and best practices and work in accordance with local laws\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-africa-50265157\/nigeria-oil-spills-spark-environmental-genocide\">Watch more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC Africa The Archbishop of York has called for urgent action to stop the oil spills that are devastating communities in Nigeria\u2019s Bayelsa state. Speaking exclusively to the BBC&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}