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Shell Petroleum reported a fresh spill from a key delivery pipeline in Adibawa delivery line southern Nigeria on November 12, 2011. The oil spill affected the whole community of Ogoniland, Nigeria. Even before the oilspill, Shell has already been the cause of suffering of the people in that community. Since Shell began drilling oil in Ogoniland in 1958, the people of Ogoniland have had pipelines built across their farmlands and in front of their homes, suffered endemic oil leaks from these very pipelines, been forced to live with the constant flaring of gas. This environmental assault has smothered land with oil, killed masses of fish and other aquatic life, and introduced devastating acid rain to the land of the Ogoni.
From this case, we can see that corporations should not be blind to see the negative effects they are causing to the community surrounding them. Corporations should take into consideration not only the welfare of their company but also the society and the environment. And if there will be unfortunate accidents like an oilspill, the corporation must act quickly to solve such problems to avoid bigger damage to happen.
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