Blood emulsion purification action Nigeria

bodo - Heavy pollution caused by the Nigerian blood oil fries threatens to negate all Dutch efforts to restore health to the Niger Delta affected by an oil disaster. This appears after a visit that De Telegraaf brought to the area at the beginning of this month.

In 2008, the Bodo delta area was hit hard by two leaks in a Shell oil pipeline. Thanks in part to the intensive mediation of the then Dutch Ambassador Bert Ronhaar, the clean-up action in 2015 under threat of violence came to a standstill.

But in the meantime a large part of the cleaned mangrove swamp has become heavily polluted again to the despair of the cleaning teams. A sloop of the criminals filled with stolen crude oil sank after intervention by the army.