Black Soot in Rivers State: ‘Government Have Failed to Protect Citizens’

Black soot is a black particulate matter made up of carbon and results from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels. Residents of Rivers State and experts across Nigeria believe that illegal crude oil operations and the destruction of products from illegal oil refineries are responsible for the black soot. In an interview with CNN, Saatah Nubari, a state resident, says, ‘one of the causes [of the black soot] is destroying products that are gotten from illegal crude refineries. When you burn them, it goes up into the atmosphere’.