Resources
On Gas Flaring:
JINN’s 2010 report, “Gas Flaring in Nigeria.”
Stakeholder Democracy Network, “Gas Flaring in Nigeria: Towards an Alternative Solution.”
The Independent [UK] article, “Visible from Space, Deadly on Earth: The Gas Flares of Nigeria,” Apr. 27, 2010.
Wall Street Journal article, “A Lack of Flare,” Oct. 19, 2009.
Social Action’s 2009 report, “Flames of Hell: Gas Flaring in the Niger Delta.”
International Institute for Environment and Development, “Access to Sustainable Energy: What Role for International Oil and Gas Companies? Focus on Nigeria,” June 2009.
World Bank Report, A Twelve Year Record of National and Global Gas Flaring Volumes Estimated Using Satellite Data (estimating annual loss caused by gas flaring at over $2.5 billion and stating that wasted gas in Nigeria has the potential to solve over half of the African continents power needs).
Oil Wars:
Read JINN’s Special Report on the crisis created by the Nigerian military bombing in May 2009 of the Gbaramatu Kingdom in South East Nigeria.
See photographs and videos gathered by JINN of the Gbaramatu region destruction.
In December 2010 the Nigerian Federal Government began another bombing campaign. The people of Ayakoromo community documented the brutality and destruction brought by the military attacks.
See photographs gathered by JINN of the Ayakoromo community destruction.
Other Resources:
Report on Chevron’s Human Rights Abuses in Ugborodo, Nigeria
As JINN reported in November 2008, while Chevron was on trial for the human rights abuses committed in the Niger Delta in 1998, they were simultaneously paying the Nigerian military to again attack and kill unarmed protesters.Shorting after the November 20th incident, JINN’s ally in Nigeria – Environmental Rights Action issued a report on the events in Ugborodo.Read Report.
Testimony of Nnimmo Bassey, Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action
On September 25, 2008, Mr. Bassey testified at the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law regarding the human rights abuses committed by Chevron, Shell and other oil companies in the Niger Delta.
Excerpt: Oil companies, including Chevron and Shell, have repeatedly used the Nigerian military to violently repress Delta inhabitants’ peaceful protests, causing deaths and injuries, and creating an environment in which ordinary citizens are unable to exercise their rights to free expression. Read the Full Testimony
The Senate subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law, formerly headed by Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) has unfortunately been recently eliminated. This subcommittee was responsible for such laws as the Genocide Accountability Act, which makes it a crime to commit genocide anywhere in the world. The 111th congress needs this subcommittee. You can call for its reinstatement.
Watch this video recorded by Ugborodo local community, next to Chevron’s facilities and near Shell in the Niger Delta.
Drilling and Killing: A Radio Documentary
In 1999, Amy Goodman from Democracy Now! went to Nigeria to report on how oil companies operated in the Niger Delta. She and her colleague Jeremy Scahill learned more than they expected. While there, Amy and Jeremy interviewed several people regarding the incident on Chevron’s Parabe platform that led to the killing of two peaceful protesters. Their interviewees admitted to several allegations including that Chevron paid for and transported the Nigerian military to come to the Parabe Platform and that the protesters were unarmed.
Upon their return, they produced the radio documentary Drilling and Killing. It remains one of the best sources of information regarding the shootings on the Parable Platform that has led to the court cases to be tried this September in San Francisco. Listen to the radio documentary.
Bowoto v. Chevron Litigation Background
On December 1, 2008 a San Francisco jury found Chevron not-liable in the shootings of unarmed activists protesting in 1998. However the case in now in appeal and the plaintiffs continue to seek justice for Chevron’s actions which included paying and transporting the Nigerian military to the oil platform where the protesters were conducting a peaceful sit-in. As a result of the military actions, two people were killed and several others wounded and tortured. Below is the background information regarding the case. To read what happened in court daily during the trial in the fall of 2008 visit the Bowoto v. Chevron Trial Blog
Fact sheets on the case:
Bowoto v. Chevron Human Rights Litigation
When We Protested, They Shot Us
Chevron’s Misleading Public Statements
Dead Fish, Dead Trees, No Water to Drink
Reports
The True Cost of Chevron: Alternative Annual Reports
Report Downloads
2011 Alternative Annual Report
2010 Alternative Annual Report
2009 Alternative Annual Report
Oil For Nothing
In 1999 a delegation of 9 U.S activists academics and journalists organized by Global Exchange traveled to Nigeria to visit communities in the Niger Delta that have been adversely affected by oil extraction by multinational oil companies including Bay Area based Chevron Corp. As a result of their delegation they produced a report called “Oil for Nothing: Multinational Corporations, Environmental Destruction, Death and Impunity in the Niger Delta.”
Though this report was produced almost 10 years ago. The delegations findings and recommendations still apply today.
Human Rights Watch
The Warri Crisis: Fueling Violence
This report is based partly on research in September 2003, but also upon the reports of informed observers, including nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), government spokespeople, oil company staff, journalists, and the assertions of the political leaders of each of the three ethnic groups involved in the violence—the Ijaw, Itsekiri and Urhobo.
International Crisis Group
Nigeria: Seizing the Moment in the Niger Delta (April 30, 2009)
Fueling the Niger Delta Crisis
Nigeria: Want in the Midst of Plenty
The Swamps of Isurgency: Niger’as Delta Unrest
These report focuses on more recent developments Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and perhaps
also its most poorly understood. They examine the often hazy overlap between the militant Niger Delta cause and criminal and political motives, and identify the steps required to defuse the conflict.
