$1 billion cleanup tab in Nigeria oil mess, UN says

[cory777]

Source: MSNBC

LAGOS, Nigeria — Shell and Nigeria's government contributed to 50 years of pollution in a region of the Niger Delta that could need the world's largest ever oil cleanup, the United Nations said in a report Thursday, adding that the work would take up to 30 years and require an initial tab estimated at $1 billion.

The report came after Shell agreed not to oppose a move by one delta community to have their pollution claims heard by a British court, potentially opening itself up to bigger financial damages.

Daniel Leader, a lawyer for the Bodo people, told msnbc.com that the case was the first of its kind because it would be heard in Britain, where payouts can be higher and cases tend to get wider media coverage.

"What is highly significant is that Shell have agreed to do this through the jurisdiction of English courts," he said.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44015602/ns/world_news-africa/#.TjqQl7bLd3U

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[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Maybe they can use some of those electric pumps Jeb's partner sold them.... not.

These are the sort of people that make your government smell bad.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070313211745AAZRZ3l
Jeb Bush's former partner builds faulty pumps that were installed in NOLA, how much more will it take?
The Army Corps of Engineers, rushing to meet President bush's promise to protect New Orleans by the start of the 2006 hurricane season, installed defective flood-control pumps last year despite warnings from its own expert that the equipment would fail during a storm, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The drainage-canal pumps were custom-designed and built under a $26.6 million contract awarded after competitive bidding to Moving Water Industries Corp. of Deerfield Beach, Fla. It was founded in 1926 and supplies flood-control and irrigation pumps all over the world.

MWI is owned by J. David Eller and his sons. Eller was once a business partner of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in a venture called Bush-El that marketed MWI pumps. And Eller has donated about $128,000 to politicians, the vast majority of it to the Republican Party, since 1996, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

sick of it yet?

ON EDIT TO ADD:

http://www.spockosbrain.com/2007/03/landrieu-wants-flood-control-pumps
Friday, March 16, 2007
Landrieu Wants Flood Control Pumps Investigation
Louisiana Sen. Landrieu Wants Flood Control Pumps Investigation, Casts Votes on Iraq

Written by: BayouBuzz Staff

United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., on Thursday sent a letter to the Comptroller General of the United States, David M. Walker, requesting an investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on a recent news report that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers knowingly installed defective flood-control pumps in Louisiana drainage canals.

[givemebackmycountry]

2. I'm sure they will get right on it.

God, I hate these dirty polluting fuckers.

[JJW]

3. The Mr. O administation giving Shell green light

on drilling in the arctic ocean with no means of cleaning up a spill.