An oil spill last week at an ExxonMobil facility off the coast of Akwa Ibom state in Nigeria has spread at least 20 miles from the original leak location, coating waters used by fishermen. According to Reuters, their reporter witnessed “a rainbow-tinted oil slick stretching for 20 miles from a pipeline that [...]

The Lagos State government is ramping up enforcement against breach of environmental laws and toughening prosecution of offenders. Tunji Bello, the commissioner for the environment in Lagos State in southwest Nigeria, told the media at a recent ministerial news conference in Lagos, that emphasis will now be on non-custodian sentencing [...]

Before you get up in arms about what you’re about to see, know that it’s a tongue-in-cheek parody of the typical PR stunts and greenwashing marketing we see come out of the oil industry. The official description of the video is below: Shell’s Live With It! application explores the role [...]