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Shell oil spills in the Niger delta: ‘Nowhere and no one has escaped’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 3rd, 2011
Guardian: The air stinks, the water stinks, and even the fish and crabs caught in Bodo creek smell of pure "sweet bonny" light crude oil. It has found its way deep into the village wells, it lies thick in the mud flats and there are brown and yellow slicks all along the 20 sq km network of creeks, swamps, mangrove forests and rivers that surround Bodo in the Niger delta.
The first oil ever exported from Nigeria was found just five miles away from Bodo in 1958 but, says chief Tella James, chair of Bodo's...
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Climate Change – Danger Looms – Rep
Posted by All Africa Global Media: None Given on August 3rd, 2011
All Africa Global Media: HOUSE of Representatives member, Dr Akpan Micah Umoh, yesterday said danger is lurking around the corner if urgent steps are not taken to remedy the climate change in Nigeria as the effect will be more devastating in the Niger Delta.
Rep Umoh who is an expert on environmental matters with a special bias in Climate Change said with the rise in rainfall, Nigeria is in a precarious position as all the six zones are prone to one form of geographical calamity or the other.
He, however, pointed out...
Gas Extraction Creates A Boom For Sand
Posted by National Public Radio: Kathleen Masterson on August 3rd, 2011
National Public Radio: The rise of fracking as a method for extracting natural gas from shale rock has triggered demand for a key ingredient in the process: silica sand. In parts of the upper Midwest, there's been a rush to mine this increasingly valuable product.
In northeast Iowa, a mine recently reopened to profit from the new demand. It's owned by the Pattison family, who have run a grain business for decades. They had been storing the grain in the old, unused mine tunnels carved into the cliffs and then loading...
How Global Warming Denial Aids Terrorists
Posted by Yahoo!: Brad Sylvester on August 3rd, 2011
Yahoo!: In the United States there is vocal opposition to any suggestion that the chemicals we pump into air through the burning of fossil fuels could have any effect on global climate. These global warming deniers claim that the over-whelming scientific evidence to the contrary is either purposely faked by money-hungry scientists, or was conducted in complete error by incompetent scientists. They say there is no need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Is their position actually weakening America's security...