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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 […]

Pollution has continued in Ogoni five years after UNEP – Report

July 28, 2016July 28, 2016 Amurun KelvinLeave a Comment

Report and Resolutions of Ecological Defenders Consultative Meeting and Training held at Aluebo Town Hall, Ogale, Nchia-Eleme on the 26th of July 2016. On Wednesday the 26th of July 2016, the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) held a training and consultative meaeting for community environmental monitors, with specific emphasis on the planned clean-up of […]

Niger Delta: Now the most polluted place on earth, oil has done more harm than good – Nmimmo Bassey

July 12, 2016 Amurun KelvinLeave a Comment

Nnimmo Bassey, a renowned environmental justice advocate is the Director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation, an ecological think tank and advocacy organisation. He also chaired Friends of the Earth International from 2008 to 2012. He spoke to Chineme Okafor on the challenges of oil pollution in the Niger Delta, its remediation, and the […]

Renewed Niger Delta militancy: Evidence of hopelessness and desperation? by Ebun Abolarin,

June 13, 2016June 13, 2016 adminLeave a Comment

The renewed militant activity in the Niger Delta is an indication of hopelessness and desperation. It is a sign of rejection of whatever remediation agenda is on ground now. The militants are not unaware of the good intentions of the Buhari’s government to ‘mend fences’ particularly the President’s willingness to forge ahead with the UNEP […]

NHRC Sets Up Panel On Oil Spillage In Niger-Delta

February 23, 2016February 24, 2016 adminLeave a Comment

The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC has constituted a special panel to investigate petitions and complaints of oil spillage and environmental degradation by international oil companies, IOC, in the Niger Delta, as well as recommend penalties to be slammed on indicted companies. Executive Secretary of the Commission, Professor Bem Angwe assured that previous reports and […]

They Don’t Care if We Exist – Crude oil Spill Impacts at Forcados By Nnimmo Bassey

February 22, 2016 adminLeave a Comment

14th February was celebrated as Lover’s day across the world, but in parts of the creeks of the Niger Delta it turned out to be a tragic day. While lovers dressed with a touch of red, Forcados communities were braced for the unknown with the threat of having their water ways coated with crude oil […]

Giant Cigarettes in the Sky – Nigeria’s Toxic Gas Flares by Nnimmo Bassey

January 15, 2016 Leave a Comment

Gas flaring is the obnoxious practice of burning natural gas associated with crude oil extraction. To use the words of Joseph Croft of Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN) in the excellent environmental documentary film No Where to Run, the gas flares are like giant cigarettes attached to communities. Some flares are located horizontally, at ground level, […]