Emere Godwin Bebe Okpabi

Shell Tries To Dodge Responsibility For Nigeria Oil Spills…Again by Joe Westby

November 30, 2016 Amurun KelvinLeave a Comment

The oil company is back in the UK courts trying to shift the blame for the environmental destruction wrought in the Niger Delta. At a hearing in the UK courts this week, oil company Shell asked the judge to throw out two legal actions concerning oil spills from the company’s pipelines in the Niger Delta […]

Whither Niger Delta’s Waters of Life? by Omafume Amurun

November 27, 2016 Amurun KelvinLeave a Comment

The Asabiro stream which flows to the Warri River was a major source of potable water for the peasants of Ekpan, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta before the 1980s when the sitting of the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company triggered a maelstrom of oil activities and an influx of oil workers to the serene […]

Niger Delta Communities Drag Shell To Court In UK For ‘Decades Of Oil Spills’ In Nigeria

November 23, 2016November 23, 2016 Amurun KelvinLeave a Comment

Emere Godwin Bebe Okpabi, leader of Nigeria’s Ogale people, unpacked four bottles of water from his homeland and lined them up on a table to show why his subjects are suing Royal Dutch Shell in a London court. The Nigerian water is contaminated with oil and cancer-causing compounds such as benzene. It is what his […]