While European oil giants pledge a 'zero-spill mindset' at home, their offshore operations along the Angolan coast appears to tell a different story. Chronic oil spills into the ocean leave communities without fish or fresh food, beaches are coated in crude, and toxic exposure increases diseases among coastal communities. A year-long investigation reveals Angola’s hidden human and environmental crisis.

For 13 years, European, British, and US tankers have filled up on Angolan crude oil and left behind a trail of what residents describe as systematic, routine destruction. One small patch of Angolan seabed – Kizomba A in Block 15, operated by ExxonMobil and co-owned by BP (UK), ENI (Italy), Equinor (Norway) and Sonangol (Angola) – has cumulatively spilled oil across an area covering at least the size of Montenegro, according to our satellite imagery analysis.

  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    21 days ago

    Clearly the problem is regulation. If Angola wasn’t such a nanny state the free market would’ve naturally vibed these merchants of death into doing the moral and ethical thing … or something?