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Giant Cigarettes in the Sky – Nigeria’s Toxic Gas Flares

Giant Cigarettes in the Sky – Nigeria’s Toxic Gas Flares

by Nnimmo | January 15, 2016 | Analysis, Climate Change, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Environment, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth

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

Slow-Tracking the Ogoni Clean up

Slow-Tracking the Ogoni Clean up

by Nnimmo | January 6, 2016 | Climate/Ecological Crimes, Dirty Energy, Environment, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth

  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

Between Subsidising Polluters and Thieves

Between Subsidising Polluters and Thieves

by Nnimmo | December 24, 2015 | Analysis, Climate Change, Dirty Energy, Environment, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth

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

Two Good Days of Inspiring Indignation

by Nnimmo | December 20, 2015 | Climate Change, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Corporate Capture, Dirty Energy, Environment, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth

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