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Event: Fighting the Oil Giant, at The Phoenix Artists Club
Below is a message from Lifelines who are organising a great event in memory of Ken Saro-Wiwa. “Dear Friends, We have a remarkable line up for Lifelines’ next gig, Fighting The Oil Giant, to be held at The Phoenix Artists Club , off Charing X Rd on Wednesday 30th November at 7.30pm. John Haynes is the winner of the Costa Award [...]
Protest Exposes Shell’s Grim Record on Human Rights
Last night Shell came face to face with its grim record on human rights in Nigeria at a corporate event for London’s bright young entrepreneurs. Protesters in haunting costumes from London Rising Tide stormed the Shell Live Wire event, unfurling a large banner and distributing leaflets to event attendees. Watch the video by you and i films here: The protest coincides with [...]
Own Up, Clean Up, Pay Up: Amnesty’s new report on Shell
Amnesty International today demanded that Shell immediately pay $1 billion towards an initial clean up fund for the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta, a scheme recommended by the UN this August. A new report today published by Amnesty International and the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) has called on Shell to accept responsibility [...]
TAKE ACTION: Demand corporate accountability
The Global Greengrants Fund has set up an online petition calling on Shell to immediately clean up its appalling pollution in the Niger Delta and end its daily human rights abuses. The action has collected over 14,900 signatures since Wednesday 19 October. Let’s see if we can hit 20,000 by the end of the week! Please sign the petition now. [...]
Canada’s Dirty and Dangerous Tar Sands
When the pro-tar sands lobby group pounced on Platform’s new research on Nigeria to justify Canada’s “blood oil”, we were disgusted. Here is my blog response in The Huffington Post Canada. (Note they changed the title from ‘tar sands’ to the more innocuous ‘oil sands’). Canada’s Dirty and Dangerous Oil Sands EthicalOil.org has a reputation for [...]
Shell funds militant clashes in Nigeria: exclusive interviews with Platform
BBC Business Daily conducted an in-depth interview with researcher Ben Amunwa about Platform’s new report, titled Counting the Cost, on Shell’s human rights abuses in the Niger Delta. Shell were invited to the interview but refused to attend. The BBC World Service broadcast the interview to hundred millions of listeners worldwide this morning. You can [...]
New research reveals Shell paid militants who destroyed Nigerian towns
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday 3 October 2011 New research reveals Shell paid militants who destroyed Nigerian towns Shell fuelled human rights abuses in Nigeria by paying huge contracts to armed militants, according to a new report published by Platform and a coalition of NGOs and featured today in The Guardian. [1] Counting the Cost implicates Shell in cases of [...]
President Jonathan: ‘Our system has collapsed’
In a speech to mark Nigeria’s 51st anniversary of independence from British colonial rule, President Goodluck Jonathan talked openly about how the systemic breakdown of government institutions in the ‘giant of Africa’. The Daily Trust reports: Jonathan said the country has been running on a deficit budget because the institutions that are supposed to protect public resources and [...]
Legal analysis: Shell Nigeria lawsuits
Michael D. Goldhaber is an expert on human rights law and corporate accountability in the US. In his recent article in AM Law Daily, he offers up his views on the settlement between claimants from the village of Bodo and Shell over massive oil spills caused by the company in 2008-2009. Royal Dutch Shell has [...]
When corporate strategies backfire: Shell in Nigeria
When Shell aren’t spilling oil in Nigeria, they’re finding new ways to otherwise lose it. According to reports, one third of Shell’s daily oil extraction in Nigeria – some 300,000 barrels per day – is currently shut in at the Adibawa oil field in Bayelsa State. Shell declared a “force majeure” on 23 August, suspending [...]
