Shell says it won’t release money owed into the long-delayed fund until further governing structures are in set to oversee clean-up processThe long-delayed $1bn clean-up of heavily oil-contaminated Ogoniland in the Niger delta has moved closer with Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari setting up a restoration fund four years after a damning UN report advised the government and oil industry to act urgently.
But a spokesman for Shell,which discovered oil in Ogoniland in 1957 and exploited it until it was forced out because of pollution in 1993, said money would not be released until the Nigerian government went further, and establishing a satisfactory governing structure and appointing commissioners to oversee the clean-up process.
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Source: theguardian.com