Lab analysis demonstrates severity of Ogoniland pollution

摘要

HE RESULTS OF the analyses, which were undertaken by ALcontrol Laboratories, have formed a major component of an independent UNEP Environmental Assessment report that sought to measure the extent of the pollution and to define priorities for remediation. The UNEP report was published in August 2011 and shows that pollution from over 50 years of oil operations in the region has penetrated further and deeper than many may have supposed. It suggested that the environmental restoration of Ogoniland could prove to be the world's most wide-ranging and long term oil clean-up exercise ever undertaken if contaminated drinking water, land, creeks and important ecosystems such as mangroves are to be brought back to full, productive health.