Oil

Do you use a horseless carriage, do you eat, do you live?

Hugh Thomas (Cardiff) — Sun, 30 May 2010 16:50:18 +0100

Don't blame BP – Gulf of Mexico oil spill is America's fault
Like the banking crisis, the oil disaster will see in a new age of state intervention, says Jeremy Warner.

Source: Do you use a horseless carriage, do you eat, do you live?

STOP SHELL'S GAS FLARING IN THE NIGER DELTA

SamSam — Tue, 18 May 2010 14:12:51 +0100

CRUDE - Official Trailer

SamSam — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:51:08 +0000

UNEP Launches Assessment of Oil-Contaminated Sites in the Niger Delta - United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) --

Fulup — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:30:58 +0000

The assessment, which was requested by the Government of Nigeria, will last approximately one year.

Source: UNEP Launches Assessment of Oil-Contaminated Sites in the Niger Delta - United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) --

Shell agrees to pay compensation for execution of Saro-Wiwa and Ogoni protesters

vero — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:08:01 +0100

The oil giant Shell has agreed to pay $15.5m (£9.6m) in settlement of a legal action in which it was accused of having collaborated in the execution of the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other leaders of the Ogoni tribe of southern Nigeria.

Source: Shell agrees to pay compensation for execution of Saro-Wiwa and Ogoni protesters

'Blood oil' dripping from Nigeria

mossey — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:21:18 +0100

According to Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua this is "blood oil", akin to the trade in "blood diamonds" that fuelled bloody civil wars in West African neighbours Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Britain has promised military training... But activists in the Delta say that increasing the military presence would... increase resentment and militants' numbers - the level of violence would rise, they say.

And the Nigerian military is part of that violence, observers say.

Soldiers have indiscriminately burned whole towns and killed civilians, according to activists.

It is into this chaotic shadow world that the UK is about to commit itself.

Source: 'Blood oil' dripping from Nigeria