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oil spill in niger delta case study

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negative impact of development aid

nigerian government earned 10 million a year from oil revenues
however significant negative effects on Bodo community#
560,000 barrels of oil into the Community’s land
ruined communties lives, destroying around 1000 hectares of mangroves and all of the marine life which the Bodo community relied on to survive.
three years after the oil spills, Shell had not cleaned-up the oil spills, and had offered the Community only food as compensation

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