Tag: Nigeria

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  Reviving Rivers And Weaving Traditions In Nigeria

  The generations-old art of weaving is dying off in th town of Angiama. So are the area's rivers and streams, which have become choked with invasive water hyacinth. But Nigerian industrial designer Alafuro Sikoki has a plan to help resuscitate them both.

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  Hope Fades for Oil Spill Cleanup in Nigeria

  Last year, UNEP released a report calling for a $1 billion cleanup fund for years of oil spills in the Niger Delta, but eight months later, there is little more than silence on the issue.

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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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  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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  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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  Nigeria's Worst Offshore Spill in a Decade Expands While Shell Says Spill Is Contained

  While Shell says the spill not make it to shore, fishing communities along the coast are saying otherwise.

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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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  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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  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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  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 documents that were

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  Shell Accepts Liability For Nigerian Oil Spills For First Time - Region Will Take 30 Years To Clean Up

  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 has finally

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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 Denies Allegations in Nigeria, Where an Exxon Valdez-sized Spill Occurs Annually

  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 figures" regarding the causes of oil

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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 feed of technology-heavy ideas.

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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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  Read a Sample Chapter of Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil

  In Nigeria, the oil has not stopped leaking.

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  Beyond the Gulf Oil Spill: Five Ongoing Ecological Disasters With No End In Sight

  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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  Gulf Spill Just A Drop In The Bucket Compared To What Happens Every Day, Everywhere Else

  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