By Eric Moore
ENVIRONMENTAL Defenders Network (EDEN) is calling the attention of the National Oil Spill Detection and Remediation Agency (NOSDRA) and Shell to a crude oil spill from a Shell pipeline along Obololi creek in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.
This current oil spill occurred on the night of Sunday, 16th February, 2025, breaking Monday, 17th February, 2025.
Pentoks News gathered that it is the very first spill happening on the community river or Creek, the people’s only source of water for everything.
Obololi community is where pipelines belonging to Oando and Shell traversed.
Shell, according to community folks, laid this pipeline since 1973 and has not replaced it since then.
The people urgently need drinking water. Shell should immediately mobilize for JIV and follow up with cleanup, remediation and compensation.
Meanwhile, following EDEN’s advocacy efforts, it was expected the Deputy Executive Director of EDEN, Alalgoa Morris, would be leading the Southern Ijaw Local Government Chairman and the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Environment to visit the impacted area on Thursday, 20th February 2025.