425 posts
by HOMEf | Jan 12, 2016 | Fossil Politics
Gas flaring is the obnoxious practice of burning natural gas associated with crude oil extraction. To use the words of Joseph Croft of Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN) in the excellent...
by HOMEf | Dec 31, 2015 | Fossil Politics
Perhaps the most horrendous crude oil pipeline incident of 2015 was an explosion that occurred on 9 July while repairs of a damaged pipeline were ongoing at Azuzuama, along Nigerian...
by HOMEf | Dec 20, 2015 | Fossil Politics
The decision of the Appeal Court at The Hague on 18 December 2015 that the four farmers whose lands and creeks were damaged by Shell’s pollution can indeed sue the...
by HOMEf | Jul 12, 2015 | General
By Nnimmo Bassey COP21 has come and gone, and like most others before it, the response has been varied. Some have applauded the Paris Agreement as a giant step for...
by HOMEf | Jun 15, 2015 | Fossil Politics, Press Release
On the 10th of November 1995, twenty years ago, Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni patriots were hanged by the military dictatorship of General Sani Abacha following a kangaroo trial...
by HOMEf | Jun 12, 2015 | Fossil Politics
A call to action! We are at a crossroads. We do not want to be compelled to survive in a world that has been made barely livable for us. From...
by HOMEf | May 25, 2015 | Fossil Politics
Dr Vandana Shiva and Nnimmo Bassey We are living in a changing and challenging world. The change that has become our reality has not come about by accident. This change...
by HOMEf | May 10, 2015 | General
by Femke Wijdekop Together with 886 citizens, Dutch NGO Urgenda brought a climate liability case against the Dutch state. I joined this case as one of the co-plaintiffs. Our argument...
by HOMEf | Apr 30, 2015 | General
By Nnimmo Bassey My last meeting with Oronto was barely a week before his passing. He had sent me a text message inviting me over to Abuja to discuss some...
by HOMEf | Mar 6, 2015 | General
6 March 2015 Petition On Ogoni Environment from the Regional Conference of Asia-Pacific Right Livelihood Laureates To: The President, Federal Republic of Nigeria OGONI ENVIRONMENT: TIME TO RESTORE HOPE and...
by HOMEf | Nov 1, 2014 | General
We are glad to announce the commencement of our Community Dialogues (CD). These are diagnostic exercises that provide space for community members to review the environmental situation of their communities...
by HOMEf | Oct 20, 2014 | Hunger Politics
Every January and for almost two decades GM crop proponents celebrate the arrival of report of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech (ISAAA) on commercialized GM crops. The...