This post supported by a grant from the Patty Dumpling Endowed Chair for coverage of Oil Spills, Oil Drilling, Oil Corruption, and Pathetic Compensation Offers From Oil Companies. Here's a sort-of Nice Time story. Royal Dutch Shell, the international giant that makes life better all over the world by keeping us safe from marauding polar bears and painful sunburns that might result from going to clean beaches, has agreed to pay out £55 million (about $83.5 million) to a
"the oily mess was due to impoverished locals breaking pipelines to steal oil to sell on the black market."
The ground under their own land yields vast amounts of oil . . . and they have to steal it? Maybe there's another solution, like, say, not raping the natural resources while leaving the locals in poverty.
You can't make an omelet without devastating an entire ecosystem.
I hear that this Nigerian "community" is right next to Obomber's hometown in Kenya. INPEACH!
BODOGHAZI!!, also, too.
4,000 barrels, 100,000 barrels. Who can tell the difference?
"the oily mess was due to impoverished locals breaking pipelines to steal oil to sell on the black market."
The ground under their own land yields vast amounts of oil . . . and they have to steal it? Maybe there's another solution, like, say, not raping the natural resources while leaving the locals in poverty.
The fish. Who are smarter than Shell's lawyers.
It deserves a YouTube channel of its own.
I'm thinking the heirs of a Nigerian Prince should send Shell an email.