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Friday, May 14, 2010

Multinational oil, the US and Nigeria: A crude contrast http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/64412

In the wake of the environmental disaster caused by the 20 April explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig, the oil multinational was immediately pressured into providing adequate compensation by the US government. This is an experience palpably not shared by Nigerian people in the face of another multinational, Shell, in the country's Niger Delta, writes Alex Free.

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