The Niger Delta inward Nigeria is the most productive oil-producing portion inward Africa. It has been relentlessly exploited, to a greater extent than oftentimes than non to the economical attain goodness of western stone oil companies together with corrupt politicians. It has likewise had a devastating touching on on the local environment. Since stone oil drilling started inward the 1950's it is estimated that betwixt ix together with xiii 1000000 barrels of stone oil (1,400,000 together with 2,100,000 m3) has been spilled. The authorities together with stone oil companies convey made lilliputian endeavour to command the environmental touching on of the stone oil industry, nearly ever deny responsibleness for stone oil spills together with attempt their hardest to avoid having to clean-up afterward spills.
Amnesty International's Niger Delta Oil Spills is an interactive map of stone oil fellowship spills inward the Niger Delta. This map is the outcome of a crowd-sourced endeavour to analyse stone oil tumble investigation reports past times volunteers roughly the world. This crowdsourced crusade analysed thousands of reports together with photographs produced past times companies inward relation to stone oil spills inward the region.
Using the interactive map yous tin dismiss sentiment the locations of the stone oil spills derived from reading the stone oil tumble investigation reports. The markers exhibit the place of spills together with are color-coded past times the severity of each spill. The map includes options to filter the results shown past times the 2 primary stone oil companies operating inward the region, Shell together with Eni. If yous click on a marking on the map yous tin dismiss sentiment details nigh the tumble together with click through to read the stone oil tumble study together with whatsoever photos included inward the report.
You tin dismiss read to a greater extent than nigh how crowdsourcing was used to analyze stone oil tumble records together with the lawsuit of stone oil spills on the Niger Delta inward Amnesty International's Niger Delta Negligence.
