Oil spills threaten Ondo. (The Beat).Pollution from oil spills This is a list of oil spills throughout the world. Large Oil Spills to Date Oil Spills of over 100,000 tonnes or 30 million US gallons, ordered by Tonnes Spill / Tanker Location Date *Tons of crude oil link has contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. most of the freshwater creeks--a main source of drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. and food--in Nigeria's southern state of Ondo. In a 5 August 2001 News of Nigeria report, Ondo state Ondo State, Nigeria was created on 3 February 1976 from the former Western State. It originally included what is now Ekiti State, which was split off in 1996. Akure is the state capital. environmental commissioner Sola Ebiseni said that he feared this could lead to an epidemic of waterborne diseases. Nigerian vice president Atiku Abubakar said on 14 August 2001 that 4,647 oil spills, involving 2.4 million barrels of oil, had occurred in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria between 1976 and 1996. Abubakar spoke at a conference where he announced plans to direct multinational oil companies in Nigeria to provide reports to the government on the state of their pipelines and on their programs for pollution control. |
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