Think we have it bad in the Gulf?

The Niger Delta has endured equivalent of the Exxon Valdez oil spill every year for the last 50 years.

Perhaps no place on earth has been as battered by oil, experts say, leaving residents here astonished at the nonstop attention paid to the gusher half a world away in the Gulf of Mexico. It was only a few weeks ago, they say, that a burst pipe belonging to Royal Dutch Shell in the mangroves was finally shut after flowing for two months: now nothing living moves in a black-and-brown world once teeming with shrimp and crab.

LINK (Via: The NY Times)

Comments

[BP]

See, we're not so bad.

[English Guy]

Its a little different in the Niger Delta friends- having worked there for a while I can tell you most of the spills are caused by militias either cutting into pipelines to steal crude (over a hundred thousand barrels a day is routinely stolen via barges) with hoses to pipelines attached left to gurgle till the barges come back, or pipes are deliberately destroyed by communities who then claim compensation and clean up rights. Company clean up crews (who want to do repairs and get the pipelines back up-its money after all) are often held out by the local "area boys" demanding the contract to clean (ie a big fat chunk of cash) is handed over....its not any excuse for the impact of Big OIl -its a messy ol business anywhere but lets not confuse corporate green and negligence in the GOM with organised militia crime, poverty induced sabotage and corruption at all levels of govt on a massive scale - which is whats happening in the Niger Delta.

[It OK...................]

............. barry hussain is going to take care of everybody and we'll all have 52" hd flat screen tv's and we'll never have to work again, right??

[Barry who?]

Are you talking about the kenyan/indonesian, socialist, pseudo muslim mulatto?

[DDG]

I'm so glad I live in America.

[Whattsa matter.....]

you don't like living in the united corporate / socialist states of mexico????