For more than 50 years , there were oil spills every year in the Niger Delta , with nothing done to prevent new spills . The contamination was never cleaned , thereby leaving the water undrinkable , the lands infertile and causing the death of wildlife and aquatic lives . The conditions were compared to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
Exxon Valdez oil spill
Black November