Pollution
Hold Shell accountable for Niger Delta pollution and human rights abusesAfricaFiles | 07 Nov 2011A recent UNEP study reported on the degree of contamination in communities of Ogoniland after 50 years of oil operations. When not obvious above ground, underground reservoirs of water were severely contaminated; drinking water in one community faced 900 times the levels of benezene permitted by the World Health Organization. Clean-up could take 30 years. Let's hold those that put these commnunities and the environment at risk accountable for their actions. CJW
Nigeria | Health and Environment | Pollution | Water Pollution GHANA: Toxic Electronic Waste Contaminates Surrounding Areaips.org | 01 Nov 2011Mountains of hazardous waste grow by about 40 million tons every year. This waste, mostly from Europe and North America, is burned in developing countries like Ghana in a hazardous effort to recover valuable metals.A children's school in Accra, Ghana's capital, was recently found to be contaminated by lead, cadmium and other health-threatening pollutants at levels over 50 times higher than risk-free levels. The school is located directly beside an informal electronic waste salvage site.
Ghana | Pollution | Waste A Fatal Addiction to PlasticInter Press Service | 01 Apr 2011"Be fantastic, don't use plastic!" chanted a troop of 10-year- olds from President Thomas Jefferson Elementary School in Honolulu at the conclusion of an international conference on the millions of tonnes of trash that enter the oceans every year, with serious consequences for marine life and habitats as well as to human health and the global economy.
Environmental Impacts | Plastics | Pollution | Recycling Nigeria: E-Waste and Environmental ProtectionAllAfrica.com | 11 Jan 2011Adopting information Technology may be desirable, but there is an ugly side to it, which has to do with hazards arising in e-waste. The Nigerian government has made concerted efforts over the years to embrace Information Technology by setting up various agencies that would facilitate the domestication of the technology. Such agencies include the Information Technology Agency (NITDA), the Digital Bridge Institute. and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), among others.
Nigeria | Economics and the Environment | Pollution | Waste Management Uganda: Slippery politics of Uganda's oilThe Monitor | 23 Nov 2010Long lines of fuel hungry cars and angry motorists are becoming to Uganda what workers strikes are to South Africa, the continents biggest economy. But where South Africas song and dance trade unionists picket the government for better wages- and have been a part of the countrys transition to democracy in the 90s, in Uganda, organised protests rarely occur.
Uganda | Fossil Fuels | Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Pollution Mozambique: Mozal 'By-Pass' BeginsAllAfrica.com | 22 Nov 2010Maputo — The Mozal aluminium smelter on the outskirts of Maputo on Wednesday began its controversial "by-pass" operation, whereby pollutants will be emitted from the two fume treatment centres (FTCs) without passing through filters, while the FTCs are rebuilt. A Mozal spokesperson confirmed to AIM that the "filter by-pass" did indeed begin on Wednesday morning and will last for 137 days.
Mozambique | Pollution UNEP fieldwork in Ogoniland, Nigeria, still ongoingUNEP | 22 Nov 2010The fieldwork by UNEP's scientific teams on oil pollution in Ogoniland, Nigeria is firmly focused on collecting samples of water, soil, sediment, air and plant and animal tissue, with the on-the-ground activities due to be completed in December 2010 after which there will be further laboratory analysis.
Nigeria | Fossil Fuels | Pollution GUINEA: Plan to remove toxic chemicals on holdIRIN News | 08 Nov 2010More than a year after their discovery, toxic and flammable chemicals stored throughout the Guinea capital Conakry remain in place - a UN plan to remove them repeatedly held up by political instability. A UN official said the substances (see box) - many of which can be used to make or refine...
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