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updated 8/4/2011 2:26:57 PM ET
BP did more in six months for the US … than Shell has done in 50 years,’ activist says
LAGOS, Nigeria — Shell and Nigeria’s government contributed to 50 years of pollution in a region of the Niger Delta that could need the world’s largest ever oil cleanup, the United Nations said in a report Thursday, adding that the work would take up to 30 years and require an initial tab estimated at $1 billion. READ THE ARTICLE
