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Archive for July 4, 2010
The Niger Delta
July 4, 2010 by Jay Taber.
Ogoni Oil
The Niger Delta, home to 31 million people and one of the most important wetlands in the world, is also one of the most oil-polluted sites on Earth. Caught between callous oil companies and crooked bureaucracies, the indigenous Ogoni reap all the harm and none of the benefits. Watching their environment and livelihoods disintegrate over the last half century, the Ogoni rightly ask why American consumers don’t care.
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