Take action to call for an end to gas flaring in Nigeria

Join us on May 19 in San Francisco to stand in solidarity with folks across the world who are protesting Shell on the day of their shareholder meeting in the Hague – One week before the Wiwa v Shell trial starts in New York City.

The upcoming court cases against Shell for their complicity in the death of environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and his Ogoni colleagues, is a chance to remember why Ken and the Ogoni people were peacefully protesting and why those throughout the Niger Delta are still calling for environmental clean up and an end to gas flaring today.
The Niger Delta is riddled with gas flares causing major heath and environmental damage for the people living where flares are literally next to their farms and villages. Oil companies could have processed the natural gas (billions of cubic meters are wasted each year on flaring) which is a by product of extracting crude, or they could have re-injected it into the land. Not surprisingly, they chose the cheapest and most destructive practice – burning it off.
This process, in turns out, is one of sub-Saharan Africa’s largest contributors to greenhouses gases. According to the World Bank,it’s estimated that if CO2 emissions from flaring were stopped, it would contribute to about 13% of committed emission reductions by the developed countries under the Kyoto Protocol for the period of 2008-2012.
And flaring is officially illegal in Nigeria anyway.
That’s why we ask you to Join Justice in Nigeria Now and our allies in calling an end to gas flaring. Send a letter to Shell’s CEO to tell him to do the right thing in Nigeria and end flaring once and for all. Some of the the flares in the Delta have been burning for over 50 years. Just imagine the noise and heat and pollution that the people of the Niger Detla experience every day living by gas flares.

You can support the legacy of Ken Saro-Wiwa and Take Action Now!