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)