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10th December 2021

Former Archbishop of York, Lord John Sentamu, calls the month-long oil spill in Nigeria “ Environmental Genocide” and calls for action

The former Archbishop of York, Lord John Sentamu, Chair of The Bayelsa State Oil and Environmental Commission today described the oil spill caused by Nigeria’s Santa Barbara river Well 1 Platform blowout, at the former Shell owned facility, in Bayelsa “an environmental genocide”. The month-long spill of some two million…