Oil politics
Subtitle: echoes of ecological wars
By: Nnimmo Bassey
Publisher: Daraja Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Montréal, Québec]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780995222311
Subjects: Petroleum industry and trade; Environmental aspects; Political aspects; Pétrole; Industrie et commerce; Aspect de l'environnement; Aspect politique
Description: "The essays here contribute to developing and deepening an understanding of the ecological challenges ravaging Nigeria, Africa and our world today by the oil industry. They illustrate the global nature of these terrors."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: I will not dance to your beat; title: Echoes of an ecological war; title: Human rights and the multiple environmental changes; title: Africa in the vice-grip of the climate crisis; title: Where are the 50-year-old trees?; title: To stop the Sahara; title: Of floods, dams and the damned; title: Flaring gas : profiting from illegalities in Nigeria; title: How would you fly to the UK?; title: Can Cancún?; title: The betrayal of Cancún; title: A red card for California REDD; title: Ambition, selfishness and climate action; title: As Kogi fights over refinery location; title: Violence in the land; title: A nation split by oil; title: The 'milking' of oil workers; title: The tragedy of Ayakoromo; title: Mending MEND; title: The amnesty worked; title: When oil companies volunteer; title: Environmental issues in extractive industries transparency; title: Drilling in the dark; title: So Shell is everywhere; title: Shell's fracking moves in the Karoo; title: The coming belt of fire; title: Gas flaring, hot air and fertilisers; title: The bush refineries of the Niger Delta; title: Seekers of selective transparency; title: Charge them with manslaughter; title: Death and the kids of Zamfara; title: Resurrection in Chile; title: Caught in the Amazon; title: The cemetery of mangroves; title: The emperor with no clothes; title: Chasing tar balls in the Gulf of Mexico; title: The price of a vote; title: Running from the senate; title: Serving the nation in hostile times; title: Oil, despotism and the philanthropic tokenism; title: Nigeria's unacceptable biofuels policy; title: Slipping on oil and gas laws; title: How about the Petroleum Industry Bill?; title: The petroleum bill and last minute legislative contortion; title: Many blind spots; title: Nigerian draft Petroleum Industry Bill criminalises communities; title: Resitance as advocacy in the oil fields of Nigeria; title: Shell shrugs off Bonga fine; title: Decades of destruction : Shell in Nigeria; title: Between four farmers and Shell; title: Walking on caves of fire; title: Ogoni and the agony of a delayed clean up; title: Two years after the UNEP report : Ogoni still groans.