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Bowoto v Chevron Human Rights Case Could Set Legal Precedent With...
With all the focus on the US presidential race, thankfully coming to a close tomorrow, here’s another one of those things you’d be forgiven for not noticing, but which has some potentially great
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Chevron Cleared of Charges in Nigerian Human Rights Case
The jury in a San Francisco federal court this week cleared Chevron of charges for human rights abuses committed in NIgeria. More details on the decision and its impact below the fold.The Bowoto v...
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Nigerian Oil, Shark Fin Soup & Elephant Poaching: Planet in Peril's Lisa Ling...
Over on CNN their award-winning series Planet in Peril, hosted by Anderson Cooper, Lisa Ling and Dr Sanjay Gupta, is returning for another season (the premier episode is Thursday, December 11 at 9 PM...
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Climate Change Puts the Reality in This TV Show
At first it sounds like any other reality show: "Candidates will be put through a series of tough physical
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Gulf Spill Just A Drop In The Bucket Compared To What Happens Every Day,...
Forest and farmland were now covered in a sheen of greasy oil. Drinking wells were polluted and people were distraught. No one knew how much oil had
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Beyond the Gulf Oil Spill: Five Ongoing Ecological Disasters With No End In...
Living some 6,000 miles away from the Gulf of Mexico, I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that the oil spill often seems like an abstraction to me. A big, big abstraction, but still.
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Read a Sample Chapter of Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil
In Nigeria, the oil has not stopped leaking.
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Friends of the Earth's Nnimmo Bassey Wins 2010 Right Livelihood Award
"For revealing the full ecological and human horrors of oil production and
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To Determined Young Social Innovators, the Highest Tech Is Low
Mention social good to generation Y -- or other generations for that matter -- and the focus easily turns to high tech innovation. It's an angle emphasized by big events like TED, which emit a steady...
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Shell Denies Allegations in Nigeria, Where an Exxon Valdez-sized Spill Occurs...
Despite a long history of blatant environmental and human rights abuses in Nigeria, Shell denied in a Dutch public hearing this week allegations of using "nontransparent, inconsistent and misleading...
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Shell Emissions Up by 9% Last Year, Natural Gas Flaring Up 32%
Royal Dutch Shell has released a sustainability report for 2010 showing that its direct greenhouse gas emissions rose by nine percent, and natural gas flaring—a wasteful practice that contributes its own
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Shell Accepts Liability For Nigerian Oil Spills For First Time - Region Will...
If you thought the Gulf Oil Spill was bad, and it was, that was nothing compared to what's been happening for years on a sadly regular basis in Nigeria. After long denying responsibility, Shell Oil...
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Documents Reveal Shell Paid Nigerian Military to Suppress Protests
Interesting news from The Guardian this week: oil giant Shell worked with the Nigerian military and with mobile police to suppress protests against its oil activities in the 1990s, according to court...
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Amnesty Urges Shell to Start Cleaning Up Decades of Oil Spill Damage in Nigeria
Decades of oil spills have wreaked havoc on Niger Delta communities.
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Shell Oil Spill in Nigeria Is Likely the Worst In a Decade
Shell announces that up to 40,000 barrels of crude oil was spilled off the coast of the Niger delta.
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Source of Shell Nigeria Leak Confirmed
The source of this week's oil spill off the coast of Nigeria, likely the country's worst offshore spill in more than a decade, has been confirmed.
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Nigeria's Worst Offshore Spill in a Decade Expands While Shell Says Spill Is...
While Shell says the spill not make it to shore, fishing communities along the coast are saying otherwise.
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Fishing Suspended in Nigeria As Cleanup After Offshore Shell Spill Continues
Nigerian officials have suspended fishing off the coast of Nigeria following the area's worst oil spill in over a decade.
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1 Reversible Dress Can Be Worn in 10 Flattering Ways
Nigerian designer Adebimpe Adebambo's 'One Leaf' dress puts a fresh twist on reversible fashions.
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Nigerian Villages Take Shell to Court Over Oil Spills in Groundbreaking Case
Lawyers representing 35,000 villagers filed suit in London, alleging that Shell's slow response to a 560,000 barrel oil spill has destroyed their local economy.
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