'Blood in the oil': Nigeria's delta drilling plan sparks fury

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : They haven't finished cleaning up the spills and are already talking up oil exploration . . . 
52% : President Bola Tinubu last week told a meeting of select political and traditional leaders from Ogoniland, a cluster of towns and villages home to about 2mn people in Nigeria's Rivers State, that the government wanted to open negotiations to restart production.
48% : What is the government doing differently now to justify the resumption of exploration in Ogoniland?" Akpobari, the Ogoniland activist, acknowledged there was not uniform opposition to the planned resumption of oil activity, but warned those minded to support the bid to take lessons from other oil-producing communities in the delta.
47% : Olanrewaju Suraju, head of the human rights project at the Lagos-based Human and Environmental Development Agenda, one of the signatories, said the majority of Ogoni people were not opposed to oil production in theory but were wary given the region's painful history.
45% : Nigeria's plan to resume oil production in one of the most environmentally devastated parts of the oil-rich Niger Delta after a three-decade halt has ignited criticism from campaign and community groups opposed to the move.
45% : "The attempt to resume oil extraction in a region already ravaged by environmental neglect further exacerbates the suffering of the people and is an affront on their right to a safe environment," the letter said.
44% : They said unresolved issues included the lack of exoneration of Saro-Wiwa and others who were executed, the need for increased funding for the clean-up efforts and to make oil companies -- "particularly Shell" -- accountable for spills, among other demands.
39% : "Oil exploration has rarely been beneficial to the Ogoni people," he said.
37% : " International oil companies, including Anglo-Dutch giant Shell, stopped drilling in Ogoniland in 1993 following years of tension between companies, communities and the Nigerian government.

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