Nigeria’s oil disasters are met by silence
Guardian: Last month, on the other side of the Atlantic, the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell’s operation caused from 1m to 2m gallons of oil to spill into the ocean off the coast of Nigeria, also as the result of an industrial accident. It was the worst spill in Nigeria in 13 years in a part of that country where the oil and gas industry has been despoiling the environment for more than 50 years, on a scale that dwarfs the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico by a wide margin. Shell claims it has completely cleaned up the mess, but villages counterclaim the oil has been washing up on their coastline. The world’s media seem to be uninterested in checking the facts. Continue
