grassroots highlights - oil and gas
We support the right of local communities to reject and resist extractive industry operations that threaten their health and livelihoods. At the same time, we call upon people everywhere to think critically and creatively about what they really need to consume and produce.
“Shell will be dragged from the boardroom to the courthouse, time and
again, until the company addresses the injustices at the root of the
Niger Delta crisis and put an end to its environmental devastation,”
says Anne van Schaik from Friends of the Earth Netherlands.
Photo: Boys playing football near gas flare in Akaloa-Lu, Niger Delta, Nigeria.
nigerians warning communities about ghana's black gold
Although oil and gas exploration have been central to the Nigerian economy for over fifty years, the people living in the Niger Delta have only pain and anguish to show for it. New oil fields have now been discovered off the coast of neighbouring Ghana, and it is claimed that this will boost Ghana’s economy. But little consideration seems to have been given to its potential impacts on people living close to distribution pipes and refineries.
togo, ghana and nigeria: inspiring resistance against west african pipeline
Witnessing the waning momentum in communities which have struggled for years to hold gas pipeline actors accountable our groups in Nigeria, Togo and Ghana coordinated a regional community exchange. It inspired insights, confidence and cohesion.
cameroon: safeguarding the bagyieli territories
The Bagyieli people are indigenous forest-based communities in Cameroon. However, due to the construction of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline, the Bagyieli have been forced to leave their territories.
peru: challenging the devastating camisea gas project
Possibly the Amazon’s most damaging fossil fuel development, the $1.6 billion Camisea Gas Project has pushed two pipelines through a globally-significant Amazon biodiversity hotspot.
france: huge symbolic victory in erika oil spill trial
The 1999 Erika oil spill was one of France’s worst environmental disasters, caused when an oil tanker carrying 30,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil ran aground off the Brittany coast.
shamed shell abandons wildlife photo sponsorship
Since 2006, Britain’s most prestigious wildlife photography exhibit, the “Wildlife Photographer of the Year,” has been sponsored by Shell.
