Niger delta oil spills

With 606 oilfields, the Niger delta supplies 40% of all the crude the United States imports and is the world capital of oil pollution. Life expectancy in its rural communities has fallen to little more than 40 years.
Locals blame the oil that pollutes their land and can scarcely believe the contrast with the steps taken by BP and the US government to try to stop the Gulf oil leak and to protect the Louisiana shoreline from pollution.

"If this Gulf accident had happened in Nigeria, neither the government nor the company would have paid
much attention," said the writer Ben Ikari, a member of the Ogoni people. "This kind of spill happens all
the time in the delta."

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