A Bayelsa State community in Nigeria is calling on the government to force Conoil, the indigenous operator of an offshore field that leaked significant volumes of gas into the environment, to pay compensation for damaging their livelihoods and health.
Reuben Preboye, chairman of Community Development Council for Sangana, said late last week: “We demand immediate action. What we need are relief materials, medical teams as soon as possible and they (Conoil) have to think of a way of paying adequate compensation.”
He was speaking on 26 November when a flotilla of fishermen from Sangana were protesting at sea near Shelf Drilling’s Adriatic 1 jackup rig – the site of the gas leak – on Conoil’s Otuo field in OML 59.
Sangana is one of 19 autonomous communities that make up the Akassa clan, and the fishermen threatened to stop all Conoil’s operations in the area.
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