{"id":26753,"date":"2009-07-03T15:25:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T15:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/07\/03\/amnesty-international-report-r\/"},"modified":"2009-07-03T15:25:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T15:25:06","slug":"amnesty-international-report-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/03\/amnesty-international-report-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty International Report Rejected &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Nigeria&#8217;s state oil company rejected criticism from a leading human rights group Wednesday, calling an Amnesty International report &#8220;inaccurate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have issues with the report,&#8221; said Levi Ajuonoma, a spokesman for Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty said Tuesday that pollution and environmental impacts from the oil industry in the Niger Delta are creating a &#8220;human rights tragedy&#8221; in which local people suffer poor health and loss of livelihood.<\/p>\n<p>Governments and oil companies are failing to be accountable for the problems, Amnesty said in its report, called &#8220;Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the state oil company said it was local communities who cause much of the environmental damage by vandalizing pipelines for monetary gain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/royaldutchshellplc.com\/2009\/07\/02\/nigeria-oil-company-rejects-damning-amnesty-report\/\"> Shell Oil<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s state oil company rejected criticism from a leading human rights group Wednesday, calling an Amnesty International report &#8220;inaccurate.&#8221; &#8220;We have issues with the report,&#8221; said Levi Ajuonoma, a spokesman for Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Amnesty said Tuesday that pollution and environmental impacts from the oil industry in the Niger Delta are creating a &#8220;human &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/03\/amnesty-international-report-r\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amnesty International Report Rejected &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Xv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}