Oil spoils

摘要

By booting out Royal Dutch Shell in 1993, the 500,000 inhabitants of Nigeria's Ogoniland hoped to take the first step towards cleaning up their homeland, a small region within the creeks and swamps of the vast Niger Delta, Africa's biggest oil-producing region. Almost 20 years later, a new report from the un says it could take 30 years and at least $1 billion to rid the poisoned mangroves of a thick, black carpet of crude.