Trunkline explosion in Goi community
A trunk line which belongs to the Shell Petroleum Development
Company (SPDC) carrying crude oil in the Goi community in the Ogoniland
area of Rivers State was engulfed in fire and flames on Monday morning.
An environmental activist, Celestine Akpobari, who visited the
site, disclosed that the inferno occurred just a few meters away from a
military surveillance post. According to her, the fire immediately
followed the sound of an eruption affecting the Agbada/Bomu trunk line.
"Goi, another Ogoni community, is on fire this early morning
from an eruption on the 28-inch Agbada/Bomu trunkline belonging to
Shell, which is just a few meters from the surveillance post.
"The first eruption which led to a serious fire outbreak
occurred in the same community last July 10, 2016, leading to a complete
destruction of livelihoods belonging to the entire Akpene kindred.
"The [United Nations Environmental Program] recommended
immediate decommissioning [of the trunk line] and I think it is high
time Shell remove their pipeline from Ogoni," the activist told SaharaReporters.
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