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jrtomhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/30/oil-spills-nigeria-niger-delta-shell
Apparently the Niger Delta gets this much oil spilled on it _every year_.
Apparently the Niger Delta gets this much oil spilled on it _every year_.
With 606 oilfields, the Niger delta supplies 40% of all the crude the United States imports and is the world capital of oil pollution. Life expectancy in its rural communities, half of which have no access to clean water, has fallen to little more than 40 years over the past two generations. Locals blame the oil that pollutes their land and can scarcely believe the contrast with the steps taken by BP and the US government to try to stop the Gulf oil leak and to protect the Louisiana shoreline from pollution.