Shell agrees to start clean up of 2008 Niger Delta oil spill

Shell has agreed with Nigerian fishing community of Bodo in the Niger Delta to start the clean up of two devastating oil spills in 2008, activists and locals said
“Shell officials met with representatives of Bodo community in Port Harcourt.

The meeting was attended by officials of the Dutch embassy, UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme), Amnesty International and some local activists,” Steven Obodekwe of the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development lobby group told AFP. Synopsis have it that consensus was reached to begin the clean up in August, 2015.