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Nigeria for their failure to compensate fishermen within the coastal areas who suffered devastating losses due to the oil company's exploration activities and major oil spills. Thick balls of tar have also been sighted washed upon the shoreline as well as oil slicks. The spill has only exacerbated the already growing problem of pollution in the Delta. The Nigerian government estimates there were over 7,000 spills, large and small, between 1970 and 2000, according to the
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chemical dispersants which are scientifically proven to be toxic to human and aquatic life to clean up oil spills whenever they occur. He also noted that dispersants were even more dangerous than crude oil because it breaks down the crude oil and sinks it to the sea bed where it kills fish eggs and fingerlings thereby wiping out generations of fish stock and other sea food and marine creatures that make up the food chain.
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revealed that the fishermen reportedly hauled in fish killed in ExxonMobil's oil spill in a location about 20 kilometers from the shoreline and supplied the bad fish to unsuspecting members of the public. The
Nigerian Environmental Rights Action group issued a demand for N51 billion ($ 100 Million)
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near the coast to contain the oil spill. These dispersants were considered a violation of environmental standards in the oil industry. Rev. Samuel Ayadi, Akwa Ibom State
Chapter Chairman of Artisan Fishermen Association of Nigeria (ARFAN), said that ExxonMobil was in the habit of using dangerous
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of impoverished communities. Nigeria sees its future output growth largely in offshore fields and does not want spills there to compound its environmental woes. Checks by
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that allegedly developed as a result of the leak. Past oil spills in the delta's creeks have been left to fester for decades, polluting the air,
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