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Oil spill damage in the Niger Delta region, April 6, 2010 (Flickr/Sosialistisk Ungdom) Simon Ayafa has witnessed oil pollution in the Niger Delta region since he was 15. Now, at 35, he feels the region has been made uninhabitable by decades of oil spills. "You to go the stream to fetch water and you get oil," said Ayafa, who is a parishioner at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Bodo, a fishing village that has suffered from massive oil spills. "You go to the farm and the crops are damaged and cannot produce because of pollution. That is our fate here." A series of pipeline spill...

NationofChange “Finally, there is some justice for the Nigerian people suffering the consequences of Shell’s oil.” After a 13-year legal battle, a small group of Nigerian farmers won their pollution case against Shell Oil.  These four farmers, along with Friends of the Earth Netherlands, took Shell to court after the oil giant contaminated their lands with years of oil spills.  #Shell has today been defeated in court by Nigerian farmers. This is a hopeful day for all victims of oil companies’ pollution and human rights abuses. But no victim should have to wait 13 years...

Nigerian Villagers Score ‘Victory for Humanity’ When a Court Verdict Slams Shell Oil For Liability After Years of Spills Feb 10, 2021 Four Nigerian famers have won a 13-year legal battle against Shell Oil after a spill allegedly contaminated their lands. The David vs Goliath story went all the way from the rural Niger Delta to The Hague Court of Appeal, resulting in the farmers being compensated, with further mandates for both safety and cleanup being pressed upon parent company Royal Dutch Shell. It was on Friday that the Netherlands ruled in favor of farmers from the Goi and Oruma...

The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending January 29th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US fell by 192 billion cubic feet to 2,689 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 41 billion cubic feet, or 1.5% higher than the 2,648 billion cubic feet that were in storage on January 29th of last year, and 198 billion cubic feet, or 7.9% above the five-year average of 2,491 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 29th of January in recent years....the 192 billion cubic feet that...

Oil Change International C: Milieudefensie It is now twenty six years since the Nigerian activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni were murdered by the Nigerian military for their campaign against the oil giant Shell. Ken and other others had campaigned against Shell’s endemic pollution of Ogoni and the company’s environmental racism and double standards of operations. They campaigned for clean air and water and self-determination. They paid the ultimate price. In his powerful, defiant closing speech to the sham military Tribunal just before he was hung, Ken said: “I and my colleagu...