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BODO, Nigeria — Big oil spills are no longer news in this vast, tropical land. The Niger Delta, where the wealth underground is out of all proportion with the poverty on the surface, has endured the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez spill every year for 50 years by some estimates. The oil pours out nearly every week, and some swamps are long since lifeless.
That the Gulf of Mexico disaster has transfixed a country and president they so admire is a matter of wonder for people here, living among the palm-fringed estuaries in conditions as abject as any in Nigeria, according to the United Nations. Though their region contributes nearly 80 percent of the government’s revenue, they have hardly benefited from it; life expectancy is the lowest in Nigeria.
“President Obama is worried about that one,” Claytus Kanyie, a local official, said of the gulf spill, standing among dead mangroves in the soft oily muck outside Bodo. “Nobody is worried about this one. The aquatic life of our people is dying off. There used be shrimp. There are no longer any shrimp.”
Originally posted by ladyinwaiting
reply to post by henriquefd
Your link goes to the sign in page. Could you find a more workable link?
I have a username on the NYT's, but this is saying the article can't be found.
thanks.
Originally posted by ladyinwaiting
www.google.com...:en-us&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7GZAZ_en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=2ioaTIyUIsKclgeI7smSCw&s a=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=6&ved=0CD0QsAQwBQ
This is the link for the thumbnail picts of Nigerian oil spills.
Don't know why link looks so weird. Maybe it will work.
This is absolutely disgraceful. And these are mostly American Oil Corporations.
If the people can't stand up on their legs and scream over this until it gets attention, and correction, then maybe the rest of the world should do it for them.
Americans are good at screaming bloody murder.
Oprah seems like a good place to start.
Originally posted by JohnPhoenix
We should be worried about the Gulf spill and Not the Nigeria leak. We need to fix our problems at home. It's not I don't feel for those people but Obama is Not in charge of Africa. Let the African officials deal with their problems.
We ( as in We, I mean Americans) should be worried about the Gulf spill and Not the Nigeria leak
Originally posted by NightFlyer96
I think I know why this was neglected - in the U.S they only care about what happens in their hemisphere - not about what happens in the rest of the world. look at the chile and Haiti earthquakes, they made such a big deal about Haiti, yet when the chile earthquake happens it was only on the news for about 2 days