Ending Gas Flaring, Building Mini Refineries
There are two oily stories that should catch our attention. One is about designing and fabrication of a refinery at a Nigerian university and the second one is about new dates for ending gas flaring in Nigeria. First is …
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Eco-Instigator #10
As is the tradition of HOMEF, Eco-Instigator #10 was issued at close of December 2015 in order to bring you some comments from the Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). …
Who Blows UP Niger Delta Pipelines? (Explosive Oil fields of the Niger Delta)
Recent bombings of oil pipelines in the Niger Delta again raise the spectre of escalation of conflicts in the region. While we cannot say the reasons for the incidents, it does appear to be calculated acts of sabotage ra…
Giant Cigarettes in the Sky – Nigeria’s Toxic Gas Flares
Gas flaring is the obnoxious practice of burning natural gas associated with crude oil extraction. To use the words of Joseph Croft of Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN) in the excellent environmental documentary film N…
Dreadful Liars on Heartless Shores
Corporatized consciences Think little of spreading fires Dreadful liars Selling adaptation suits for funeral pyres 3 degrees 5 degrees 7 degrees Flame throwers watch the Planet burn As fire works herald the New Ye…
Slow-Tracking the Ogoni Clean up
The 30 days ultimatum issued to the Federal Government of Nigeria by the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) over the delayed clean-up of the devastated Ogoni environment did not come as a surprise t…
Infernal Oil Pipes of the Niger Delta
Perhaps the most horrendous crude oil pipeline incident of 2015 was an explosion that occurred on 9 July while repairs of a damaged pipeline were ongoing at Azuzuama, along Nigerian Agip Oil Company’s Tebidabe-Clough Cre…
A Day with Ex-Lepers
Breaking the barriers Christmas season offers us opportunities to show love and remind ourselves that we are all humans, no matter our situations in life. In the midst of prevalent obnoxious consumerist tendencies, the b…
Between Subsidising Polluters and Thieves
The movement against subsidising the fossil fuel industry continues to grow and is an integral part of the keep it in the ground struggle. However, in places like Nigeria, contentious subsidies are those related to the i…
Two Good Days of Inspiring Indignation
For two days in the Maison des Metallos, Paris, experts, victims, prosecutors and judges presented or listened to cases of crimes against Mother Earth and at the end judgements were passed. There were solemn spiritual mo…
Shell’s Bad Day in the Dock
The decision of the Appeal Court at The Hague on 18 December 2015 that the four farmers whose lands and creeks were damaged by Shell’s pollution can indeed sue the oil mogul in The Netherlands has come as refreshing news…
The Secure and the Dispossessed
This is a synopsis of the great book, THE SECURE AND THE DISPOSSESSED, from the TNI staple: What if government and corporate elites have given up on the idea of stopping climate change and prefer to try to manage its con…
COP21 Agreed to A Climate Changed World
COP21 has come and gone, and like most others before it, the response has been varied. Some have applauded the Paris Agreement as a giant step for humankind. Some are claiming a big win. Others take a holistic loo…
Social movements united in defiance of false solutions being negotiated at Paris COP
Social movements united in defiance of false solutions being negotiated at Paris COP 10th December, Paris: Representatives of social movements, grassroots and community groups, and environmental campaigning organisations…
