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OIL CRISES IN LIVES OF WOMEN - Health, Work, Income, Food, Safe Water, Land,
Environment, Rights, Nature & Wildlife, Infertility & Birth
Deformities, Survival +
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UNEP - United Nations Environmental
Programme
Abuja,
4 August 2011 - 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 are to be brought back to full, productive health. _____________________________________________________________________
Full Article - BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14398659
NIGERIA - Oogoniland Oil Spills
Crises - Health Risks & Environment Damage
The Ogoni people say their land has been devastated by pollution from the oil industry
The study says complete restoration could entail the world's "most wide-ranging and long-term oil clean-up".
Communities faced a severe health risk, with some families drinking water with high levels of carcinogens, it said......
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OIL CRISES IN LIVES OF WOMEN - Health, Work, Income, Food, Safe Water, Land,
Environment, Rights, Nature & Wildlife, Infertility & Birth
Deformities, Survival +
Oil slicks, fumes, oil-related anguish, from
the Caribbean, to Alaska, to Asia, to Africa, and beyond, can suddenly disrupt
and destroy sustainable lives, and often without compensation or restoration.
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ISIS International - Women in Action
Publication
Women in a Weary World - Climate
Change & Women in the Global South
Direct Link to Full 8-Page Article
Nigeria - Niger River Delta
When
Blessing Becomes a Curse in the Niger Delta
by Betty Abah