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The Imiringi community in Bayelsa State, has commended an NGO, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), for campaigning against the laying of gas pipelines on the surface of the Kolo River by Shell Petroleum Development Company.
The spokesperson of the community, Chief Ranami Afagha, gave the commendation in an interview with newsmen in Imiringi, Ogbia Local Government Area.

Afagha also commended the media for bringing to the fore the community’s opposition of the project, saying that the advocacy forced Shell to remove the pipelines and lay them underwater.