Oil Companies Bury Chemical Waste in Saudi-Emirati Occupied Shabwa

Citizens in Shabwa governorate complained that oil companies bury chemicals near their homes, causing pollution of water sources and causing great damage to agricultural lands, as well as the spread of various diseases.

Local residents said that oil companies in the Ayyad area bury oil waste in one of the places near the landfill that oil transport locomotives pass between Al-Aqla and Ayyad.

They pointed out that the governorate suffers from an outbreak of cancer and kidney diseases due to this dangerous waste. These companies were not satisfied with plundering the governorate’s wealth, but also wanted to harm what remained of water sources, they added.

An environmental study revealed that a number of districts of Shabwa Governorate are still exposed to serious oil pollution. Its effects extended over vast distances, affecting the surrounding farms and wells, in light of a deliberate silence from the Riyadh-backed government, which is content with acquiring revenues for its own account without caring for this province and its people, despite their repeated appeals to contain the disaster.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE, backed by the United States and regional allies, launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi back to power.

As part of its economic war, the US-Saudi aggression worked to drain about 97% of the Yemeni state’s resources, either by controlling them militarily such as oil and gas sources, freezing Yemeni foreign assets and transferring them to mercenaries and financing coalition operations, or imposing siege on the vital port of Hodeidah and the most important port after Aden, which is still in the grip of Sana’a and out of control of the aggression.