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How Much More 🛢 The Nigerian government is proposing to resume exploration for new oil deposits in Ogoniland, Rivers State. Exploration in this region was halted several decades ago because of environmental degradation and civil unrest. 🔴 The area in question still looks on oil spill maps like a wartime fortified zone that underwent carpet bombing — and those are only the recentspills, linked to the fact that oil pipelines still run through the area. It is hard to imagine what would happen if new extraction projects were launched there as well. 🔥 In the 1990s, Ogoniland became a site ofconfrontation between oil companies, primarily Shell, and civil activists protesting environmental pollution from oil spills. Since then, many projects were shut down, but as we have written here before, the shutdown of operations resulted in the absence of cleanup, leaving the land contaminated to this day. 📌 The government began testing the waters back in 2024, and now an entire contingent of senior officials has been deployed to the area, including several ministers and the national security adviser. ➡️ Follow to stay informed - @devilsbelow