Shocking Pictures of Life in the Niger Delta

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Why don't the thieves share that $4.5 billion in heisted oil? After all, it's all profit to them.

Because their handlers from the west will either off them or replace them with someone more obedient.

Please define "handlers from the west".

The foreign investors that actually run the oil industry there. Maybe there are people from the east too.

 

[Mr. H.]

Shell muckin' up the Niger delta...

Amnesty report accuses Shell of failing to clean up Niger delta oil spills
Monday 2 November 2015 - After examining four oil polluted sites in the Niger delta, the human rights group says they remain ‘visibly contaminated’, though Shell says it has cleaned them

Four oil spill sites in Nigeria identified by the UN, which Shell has claimed to have had cleaned up by contractors since 2011, are still polluted, says a report by Amnesty. One of these sites, the Bomu manifold close to the village of Kegbara Dere in Ogoniland, is Nigeria’s oil central: five major northbound Shell pipelines join four southbound ones which together carry 150,000 barrels of oil a day to the huge oil export terminal at Bonny 50 miles away. The junction is considered so important to the economy of Nigeria and Shell that it is surrounded by a high fence and guarded day and night by the military.

But the ageing 50-year-old pipes and rusty pumps have burst and spilt large quantities of oil at least seven times since 1990, and in 2009 a fire broke out lasting 36 hours, leading to another major spill. When UN environment programme (Unep) inspectors visited the site in 2010, they found high levels of contamination all around Bomu, pollution 5m deep in places and oil spreading into nearby cassava fields, and water supplies. Back in 2010, Unep inspectors said, “Nothing appears to have been done about the pollution,” and urged an immediate decontamination of the Bomu manifold along with 60 other heavily polluted sites in Ogoniland, all of which, they said, had been left untouched or only cursorily cleaned up by Shell and other oil companies since the 1970s.

Earlier this year Amnesty International revisited the Bomu manifold three times and found the site still massively contaminated, despite claims from Shell and the Nigerian government’s watchdog pollution body that it had been cleaned up satisfactorily in 2012. “Water containing oil … flows along the path of the Shell pipelines. At places there are pools of oil. Some soil is black and hard. The three fish ponds, owned by a local family, are covered in a thick oily sheen, and show no signs of life. The spills … have contaminated fields and a neighbouring forest and have spread down into the Barabeedom swamp,” says Amnesty, working with the Port Harcourt-based Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD).

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So, let's get this straight. Shell owns and operates production and pipeline facilities. Nigerians poke holes in said facilities for the purpose of stealing oil. Nigerians neglect to put corks in the aforementioned holes. Shell gets fined.

Meanwhile... $hell makes billlions...

At the cost of hundreds of millions and a risk portfolio that would make Evil Knievil cringe.

...while Nigeria rakes in 30% of the take for doing absolutely jack shit.

To quote Yoda... "Of speaks he which this one not does".

 

[Mr. H.]

Why don't the thieves share that $4.5 billion in heisted oil? After all, it's all profit to them.

Because their handlers from the west will either off them or replace them with someone more obedient.

Please define "handlers from the west".

The foreign investors that actually run the oil industry there. Maybe there are people from the east too.

Why doesn't Nigeria just do all of this themselves?

Who needs Shell and their billions of dollars of investment and risk?

 

[BlackFlag]

Shell muckin' up the Niger delta...

Amnesty report accuses Shell of failing to clean up Niger delta oil spills
Monday 2 November 2015 - After examining four oil polluted sites in the Niger delta, the human rights group says they remain ‘visibly contaminated’, though Shell says it has cleaned them

Four oil spill sites in Nigeria identified by the UN, which Shell has claimed to have had cleaned up by contractors since 2011, are still polluted, says a report by Amnesty. One of these sites, the Bomu manifold close to the village of Kegbara Dere in Ogoniland, is Nigeria’s oil central: five major northbound Shell pipelines join four southbound ones which together carry 150,000 barrels of oil a day to the huge oil export terminal at Bonny 50 miles away. The junction is considered so important to the economy of Nigeria and Shell that it is surrounded by a high fence and guarded day and night by the military.

But the ageing 50-year-old pipes and rusty pumps have burst and spilt large quantities of oil at least seven times since 1990, and in 2009 a fire broke out lasting 36 hours, leading to another major spill. When UN environment programme (Unep) inspectors visited the site in 2010, they found high levels of contamination all around Bomu, pollution 5m deep in places and oil spreading into nearby cassava fields, and water supplies. Back in 2010, Unep inspectors said, “Nothing appears to have been done about the pollution,” and urged an immediate decontamination of the Bomu manifold along with 60 other heavily polluted sites in Ogoniland, all of which, they said, had been left untouched or only cursorily cleaned up by Shell and other oil companies since the 1970s.

Earlier this year Amnesty International revisited the Bomu manifold three times and found the site still massively contaminated, despite claims from Shell and the Nigerian government’s watchdog pollution body that it had been cleaned up satisfactorily in 2012. “Water containing oil … flows along the path of the Shell pipelines. At places there are pools of oil. Some soil is black and hard. The three fish ponds, owned by a local family, are covered in a thick oily sheen, and show no signs of life. The spills … have contaminated fields and a neighbouring forest and have spread down into the Barabeedom swamp,” says Amnesty, working with the Port Harcourt-based Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD).

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So, let's get this straight. Shell owns and operates production and pipeline facilities. Nigerians poke holes in said facilities for the purpose of stealing oil. Nigerians neglect to put corks in the aforementioned holes. Shell gets fined.

Meanwhile... $hell makes billlions...

At the cost of hundreds of millions and a risk portfolio that would make Evil Knievil cringe.

...while Nigeria rakes in 30% of the take for doing absolutely jack shit.

To quote Yoda... "Of speaks he which this one not does".

Lol yeah... and meanwhile Nigeria is a 3rd world shithole that only the people who Shell pays off benefit from the relationship...

...and you pretend the Nigerians who are doing the work are raking it in for doing absolutely jack shit.

 

[BlackFlag]

Why don't the thieves share that $4.5 billion in heisted oil? After all, it's all profit to them.

Because their handlers from the west will either off them or replace them with someone more obedient.

Please define "handlers from the west".

The foreign investors that actually run the oil industry there. Maybe there are people from the east too.

Why doesn't Nigeria just do all of this themselves?

Who needs Shell and their billions of dollars of investment and risk?

If their leaders weren't being paid off by foreigners, I'm sure they WOULD do this all by themselves. Meanwhile the foreigners all benefit by funneling money to horrific dictators.

 

[Mr. H.]

Shell muckin' up the Niger delta...

Amnesty report accuses Shell of failing to clean up Niger delta oil spills
Monday 2 November 2015 - After examining four oil polluted sites in the Niger delta, the human rights group says they remain ‘visibly contaminated’, though Shell says it has cleaned them

Four oil spill sites in Nigeria identified by the UN, which Shell has claimed to have had cleaned up by contractors since 2011, are still polluted, says a report by Amnesty. One of these sites, the Bomu manifold close to the village of Kegbara Dere in Ogoniland, is Nigeria’s oil central: five major northbound Shell pipelines join four southbound ones which together carry 150,000 barrels of oil a day to the huge oil export terminal at Bonny 50 miles away. The junction is considered so important to the economy of Nigeria and Shell that it is surrounded by a high fence and guarded day and night by the military.

But the ageing 50-year-old pipes and rusty pumps have burst and spilt large quantities of oil at least seven times since 1990, and in 2009 a fire broke out lasting 36 hours, leading to another major spill. When UN environment programme (Unep) inspectors visited the site in 2010, they found high levels of contamination all around Bomu, pollution 5m deep in places and oil spreading into nearby cassava fields, and water supplies. Back in 2010, Unep inspectors said, “Nothing appears to have been done about the pollution,” and urged an immediate decontamination of the Bomu manifold along with 60 other heavily polluted sites in Ogoniland, all of which, they said, had been left untouched or only cursorily cleaned up by Shell and other oil companies since the 1970s.

Earlier this year Amnesty International revisited the Bomu manifold three times and found the site still massively contaminated, despite claims from Shell and the Nigerian government’s watchdog pollution body that it had been cleaned up satisfactorily in 2012. “Water containing oil … flows along the path of the Shell pipelines. At places there are pools of oil. Some soil is black and hard. The three fish ponds, owned by a local family, are covered in a thick oily sheen, and show no signs of life. The spills … have contaminated fields and a neighbouring forest and have spread down into the Barabeedom swamp,” says Amnesty, working with the Port Harcourt-based Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD).

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So, let's get this straight. Shell owns and operates production and pipeline facilities. Nigerians poke holes in said facilities for the purpose of stealing oil. Nigerians neglect to put corks in the aforementioned holes. Shell gets fined.

Meanwhile... $hell makes billlions...

At the cost of hundreds of millions and a risk portfolio that would make Evil Knievil cringe.

...while Nigeria rakes in 30% of the take for doing absolutely jack shit.

To quote Yoda... "Of speaks he which this one not does".

Lol yeah... and meanwhile Nigeria is a 3rd world shithole that only the people who Shell pays off benefit from the relationship...

...and you pretend the Nigerians who are doing the work are raking it in for doing absolutely jack shit.

I guess the big question is, where did $67 billion go?

Shell pays $67 bil in oil and gas taxes, royalties to Nigeria over 2008-2012 - Natural Gas | Platts News Article & Story

 

[Mr. H.]

Why don't the thieves share that $4.5 billion in heisted oil? After all, it's all profit to them.

Because their handlers from the west will either off them or replace them with someone more obedient.

Please define "handlers from the west".

The foreign investors that actually run the oil industry there. Maybe there are people from the east too.

Why doesn't Nigeria just do all of this themselves?

Who needs Shell and their billions of dollars of investment and risk?

If their leaders weren't being paid off by foreigners, I'm sure they WOULD do this all by themselves. Meanwhile the foreigners all benefit by funneling money to horrific dictators.

Oh, they're being paid off by foreigners allright...

Shell pays $67 bil in oil and gas taxes, royalties to Nigeria over 2008-2012 - Natural Gas | Platts News Article & Story

Gimme some references re: "money to horrific dick taters".

 

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Shell muckin' up the Niger delta...

Amnesty report accuses Shell of failing to clean up Niger delta oil spills
Monday 2 November 2015 - After examining four oil polluted sites in the Niger delta, the human rights group says they remain ‘visibly contaminated’, though Shell says it has cleaned them

So, let's get this straight. Shell owns and operates production and pipeline facilities. Nigerians poke holes in said facilities for the purpose of stealing oil. Nigerians neglect to put corks in the aforementioned holes. Shell gets fined.

Meanwhile... $hell makes billlions...

At the cost of hundreds of millions and a risk portfolio that would make Evil Knievil cringe.

...while Nigeria rakes in 30% of the take for doing absolutely jack shit.

To quote Yoda... "Of speaks he which this one not does".

Lol yeah... and meanwhile Nigeria is a 3rd world shithole that only the people who Shell pays off benefit from the relationship...

...and you pretend the Nigerians who are doing the work are raking it in for doing absolutely jack shit.

I guess the big question is, where did $67 billion go?

Shell pays $67 bil in oil and gas taxes, royalties to Nigeria over 2008-2012 - Natural Gas | Platts News Article & Story

That's not actually the question. The actual question is where did about 10 billion dollars go... and if you don't know, then you're an idiot.

 

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Because their handlers from the west will either off them or replace them with someone more obedient.

Please define "handlers from the west".

The foreign investors that actually run the oil industry there. Maybe there are people from the east too.

Why doesn't Nigeria just do all of this themselves?

Who needs Shell and their billions of dollars of investment and risk?

If their leaders weren't being paid off by foreigners, I'm sure they WOULD do this all by themselves. Meanwhile the foreigners all benefit by funneling money to horrific dictators.

Oh, they're being paid off by foreigners allright...

Shell pays $67 bil in oil and gas taxes, royalties to Nigeria over 2008-2012 - Natural Gas | Platts News Article & Story

Gimme some references re: "money to horrific dick taters".

Yeah, foreigners love the arrangement of leaving Nigeria as a 3rd world shithole, ruled by a dictator.

 

[Mr. H.]

Please define "handlers from the west".

The foreign investors that actually run the oil industry there. Maybe there are people from the east too.

Why doesn't Nigeria just do all of this themselves?

Who needs Shell and their billions of dollars of investment and risk?

If their leaders weren't being paid off by foreigners, I'm sure they WOULD do this all by themselves. Meanwhile the foreigners all benefit by funneling money to horrific dictators.

Oh, they're being paid off by foreigners allright...

Shell pays $67 bil in oil and gas taxes, royalties to Nigeria over 2008-2012 - Natural Gas | Platts News Article & Story

Gimme some references re: "money to horrific dick taters".

Yeah, foreigners love the arrangement of leaving Nigeria as a 3rd world shithole, ruled by a dictator.

My, but you are a dandy. All wordified with nothing to show for it.

You are not Brotch material. Just plain ol' bitch scrapings.

 

[Mr. H.]

So, let's get this straight. Shell owns and operates production and pipeline facilities. Nigerians poke holes in said facilities for the purpose of stealing oil. Nigerians neglect to put corks in the aforementioned holes. Shell gets fined.

Meanwhile... $hell makes billlions...

At the cost of hundreds of millions and a risk portfolio that would make Evil Knievil cringe.

...while Nigeria rakes in 30% of the take for doing absolutely jack shit.

To quote Yoda... "Of speaks he which this one not does".

Lol yeah... and meanwhile Nigeria is a 3rd world shithole that only the people who Shell pays off benefit from the relationship...

...and you pretend the Nigerians who are doing the work are raking it in for doing absolutely jack shit.

I guess the big question is, where did $67 billion go?

Shell pays $67 bil in oil and gas taxes, royalties to Nigeria over 2008-2012 - Natural Gas | Platts News Article & Story

That's not actually the question. The actual question is where did about 10 billion dollars go... and if you don't know, then you're an idiot.

If my math is correct, 67 is bigger than 10.

Or are you a Common Core Whore?

 

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Meanwhile... $hell makes billlions...

At the cost of hundreds of millions and a risk portfolio that would make Evil Knievil cringe.

...while Nigeria rakes in 30% of the take for doing absolutely jack shit.

To quote Yoda... "Of speaks he which this one not does".

Lol yeah... and meanwhile Nigeria is a 3rd world shithole that only the people who Shell pays off benefit from the relationship...

...and you pretend the Nigerians who are doing the work are raking it in for doing absolutely jack shit.

I guess the big question is, where did $67 billion go?

Shell pays $67 bil in oil and gas taxes, royalties to Nigeria over 2008-2012 - Natural Gas | Platts News Article & Story

That's not actually the question. The actual question is where did about 10 billion dollars go... and if you don't know, then you're an idiot.

If my math is correct, 67 is bigger than 10.

Or are you a Common Core Whore?

10 billion is how much the article said was not acounted for. Guess where it went.

 

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