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Shell says its decisions were based on complex factors like security and the environment, and that it cleaned up spills regardless of the cause. Shell has blamed oil spills here on theft from its pipelines, but the Project Madrid file showed that bosses were considering carrying on pumping from its pipeline like the one that runs through here, even though they knew it would cause more pollution. One slide in the project posed a stark question.
A 2013 email chain reveals Shell's then general manager for onshore assets warned colleagues an audit of Shell's operations in the country would fail. The following month Shell executives launched a confidential working group codenamed Project Madrid. It unmasked the scale of the oil leaks. A hundred illegal refineries polluting 9000 hectares of water and 9000 hectares of land.
Se, miten Shell käsittelee heidän toimintansa, on ympäristössä. Ja nyt BBCin saadut dokumentit näyttävät, että yritys pysyvät pumpumaan, vaikka se ei tunnustanut, että se vaikuttaa ympäristöön. Yksi sisäinen dokumentti vuodesta 2012 näyttää, miten Shell-executivit sopivat pysyä Nigeria-pipelineen pumpumaan toisessa vuodessa, vaikka se ei sopiminut itsenäisistä teknisistä standardeista. He eivät ole miettineet, mitä tapahtui sinulle.
Täällä on kaunis ala. Ihmiset pelaavat täällä ja mennään rivaan. Poliisi on vaikuttanut minulle, että olen pysähtynyt restaurantin yrityksestä. Siksi olen pysynyt pysyvän. Mitä teet nyt? Puhun koko ajan. Shell's Pipeline, joka menee lähelle Bileä, puuttuu 150 000 kalliota päivässä. Se on osa maata, joka on pysynyt pysyvän ja organisoitunut öljyä, jossa on monia ilmaisuutta, joita on vaikuttanut poliisin.
Shell has always argued that pollution in the Niger Delta was caused by the theft and illegal refining of oil taken from the pipeline. Our Africa correspondent Simijola Osho reports from Bili.
But first, the British oil giant Shell continued to operate a major pipeline in Nigeria, even though bosses knew it was causing widespread pollution, according to secret internal documents obtained by the BBC. Exchanges between senior executives, disclosed during a legal case, showed they understood the risks posed by one of the firm's main pipelines to both the local people and the environment, yet chose not to shut it down.
Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Wednesday the 3rd of June. BBC News finds that Shell pumped oil for years despite knowing it was causing widespread pollution. The Trump administration scraps plans for a 1.8 billion dollar fund that critics said could give payouts to rioters who attacked the US capital. And Microsoft says its new quantum computing chip is a thousand times more reliable than its predecessor.
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