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March 12th, 2016:

Time to End ‘Blood Oil’ Disaster in the Niger Delta

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By Richard SteinerProfessor and conservation biologist, Oasis Earth (www.oasis-earth.com): 10 MARCH 2016

The Niger Delta’s legendary “blood oil” disaster has persisted for decades, and is now deepening. Oil in the Delta fuels a dangerous mix of environmental devastation, a violent militancy that has killed thousands, human rights abuses, corporate greed and exploitation, epidemic corruption, massive oil theft, sabotage, repression, poverty, anger and despair. It is time to put an end to this ongoing atrocity, once and for all.

The 30,000 square mile Niger Delta — including rich coastal waters, islands, mangroves swamps, and rainforests — was once one of the most productive and diverse ecological habitats on Earth. But today, after 60 years of oil extraction, the region’s environment and society are devastated — a textbook example of the “oil curse.

The Delta is arguably the most severely oil-damaged environment anywhere in the world. A decade ago, our team of scientists conducting an oil damage assessment in the Delta estimated that each year, some 250,000 barrels (10 million gallons) of oil spill there, an amount comparable to that of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska — each year for 50 years. Oil operations have also caused extensive habitat degradation from road building, forest clearing, dredging and filling, thousands miles of pipelines, and chronic pollution from gas flaring and drilling wastes. read more

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Worst of oil rout ‘is over’, say analysts (as Shell begins £20bn asset sale)

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By CITY & FINANCE REPORTER FOR THE DAILY MAIL: 12 MARCH 2016

Oil analysts say the price of a barrel may have bottomed out – just as Shell started a £20billion assets sale.

The International Energy Agency said a slowdown in oil production could mean the worst of the rout in oil prices is over. In January prices plummeted to 12-year lows, falling below $27-per-barrel.

But in recent weeks there has been a modest recovery, with oil rising to $40 per barrel, and the IEA said this could be the light at the end of the tunnel. read more

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