In 2011, a report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) noted that as a matter of emergency before any clean-up exercise is done in Ogoniland, in Rivers state, potable water should first be provided.
Beatrice Barine still prepares meals with polluted fish her husband, a fisherman, gets from Nuumu-Goi River in Goi community, Gokana Local Council of Rivers State despite the report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which warned that water and crops in the area are highly polluted and harmful to the body.
Global environmental justice campaigners heralded a Dutch court's ruling Friday that Royal Dutch Shell's Nigerian subsidiary must pay punitive restitution to Nigerian villages for oil spill contamination that brought death, illness, and destruction to Nigerian farmers and communities. "After 13 years, justice!" tweeted Friends of the Earth Europe.