Platts
12 August 2011
Nigeria's most prominent militant group MEND on Friday threatened to attack oil facilities, and accused Shell of complicity in the environmental destruction of the oil-rich Niger Delta.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta in an emailed statement criticized Royal Dutch Shell's "pretense of concern" and its contribution to a UN investigation into decades of pollution in the Niger Delta, which the company helped fund. "MEND views the Shell Petroleum-sponsored UN report on the degradation of the environment of the Niger Delta and its inhabitants by the deliberately irresponsible activities of Western oil companies as a pathetic attempt at trivializing the wave of destruction wrought on the ecology of the Niger Delta," it said.
The UN report published last week criticized Shell and the Nigerian government for contributing to 50 years of pollution in Ogoniland, a region of the Niger Delta which it says needs the world's largest ever oil cleanup, costing an initial $1 billion and taking up to 30 years.
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