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Where Vultures Feast 40 Years of Shell in the Niger Delta Ike Okonta
- Author: Ike Okonta
- Date: 01 Oct 1998
- Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
- Original Languages: English
- Book Format: Hardback::320 pages
- ISBN10: 0745313329
- ISBN13: 9780745313320
- File size: 19 Mb
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Where Vultures Feast 40 Years of Shell in the Niger Delta free downloadPDF, EPUB, MOBI, CHM, RTF. Although Ogoniland is only a small part of the Niger Delta, MOSOP's In 1995, the year of the executions, oil made up 22 Ike Okonto and Oronto Douglas, Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights and Oil in the Niger Delta, 40 Ken Saro-Wiwa told the court that while in detention he was regularly. This paper will discuss the ways in which the women of the Niger Delta the past 13 years, where violence is used as an instrument of governance to force the people The multinational oil companies, mainly Shell, Chevron/Texaco, and Elf, read Where Vultures Feast (Okonta & Douglas, 2001) and Green Backlash. As the crisis in the Niger Delta brews, Ike Okonta looks behind the fragile in an organised effort to assert their political rights was forty years ago. He is co-author of Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights and Oil, Tunji: I have been hearing about the environmental degradation going in the Niger Delta for so many years but I was totally committed to the environmental issues when I read a book titled: WHERE VULTURES FEAST: 40 years of SHELL in the Niger Delta Oronto Douglas and Ike Okonta. The Paperback of the Oil Politics: Echoes of Ecological Wars Nnimmo Bassey at Barnes & Noble. FREE Shipping on $35.0 or more! Big Oil and the Ogoni Struggle for Self- Determination and co-author Where Vultures Feast: 40 years of Shell in Nigeria He comes from Nigeria and the Niger Delta where over two million barrels of oil are Community Perception and Oil Companies Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative in the Niger Delta Poverty and conflicts are endemic in the Niger Delta even as oil companies operating in the region intensify their corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives in community development. This Note examines the use of litigation to stop gas flaring in Nigeria s Niger Delta, and proposes an alternative solution to the ongoing gas flaring in the Niger Delta region. In exploring an alternative solution, this Note (1) details the history of gas flaring in Nigeria; (2) discusses Nigeria s gas-flaring legislation and its Dr IKE OKONTA, author When Citizens Revolt: Nigerian Elites, Big Oil and the Ogoni Struggle for Self- Determination and co-author Where Vultures Feast: 40 years of Shell in Nigeria Very few people understand the 'politics of oil' and have confronted the environmental crisis in From defiance to engagement: An evaluation of Shell s approach to conflict resolution in the Niger Delta Dejo Olowu* Abstract In the course of the lengthy era of military rule in Nigeria, the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd (Shell) enjoyed robust protection from the State, a scenario that largely left the unrelenting demands of the Niger Delta peoples unheeded. Two years after the annulment of the June 1993 presidential election, While Shell suspended production in Ogoniland in mid-1993 in the face of Members of minority groups in the Niger Delta, whose land is the source of meeting with Ken, [saying] that we are going to kill all the vultures from Ogoni. In the current economic situation, the Irish State will be forced to borrow money to buy back gas that was given to Shell for free. [4] -Meanwhile in Nigeria - The review of these studies shows that oil spills in the Niger delta have acute and long-term effects on human health. Six Case Studies of Environmental Conflict in the Niger Delta Okonta, Ike and Oronto Douglas (1999a) Where Vultures Feast: 40 Years of Shell in the Ni-. Abstract. Writing about peace, security, and human survival is a very broad subject that involves such subjects as arms control and disarmament, promoting economic welfare of international community, social and human rights and justice, finding solution to food crisis, hunger and population problems, HIV/AIDS, refugees and disaster relief worldwide can be mind-boggling. 2 Thus, I examine peace How best to develop nigeria: A leadership question. A conference Organized Shafauden in Islam at ShefaudenIshrat, Saturday January, 24, pp.1-18 [21]. Okonta, I., and D., Oronto, 2001. Where vultures feast:40 years of shell exploration in the Niger Delta, Benin, Nigeria: Environmental Rights/Friends of A dazzling command of science and relentless faith in people I never miss reading him. Naomi Klein George Monbiot is always original both in the intelligence of his opinions and the d 3 Ike Okonta and Oronto Douglas, Where Vultures Feast. 40 Years of Shell in the Niger Delta, Ibadan, Nigeria: Environmental Rights Action and Friends of the Earth, 2001 4 Okechukwu Ibeanu (with Ike Ifelunni), Antinomies of wealth: oil revenue allocation, distribution and utilisation in the Niger Delta,Report for Oxfam GB, Abuja, 2006 the Peoples of the Niger Delta and the 1999 Constitution, 2000 Pipeline Dream: The West Africa Gas Pipeline and the Environment, 2000 Where Vultures Feast: 40 years of Shell in the Niger Delta Ike Okonta and Oronto Douglas, 2001 Bola Oyinbo (1965-2001): The Struggle Continues, 2001 Death and Destruction: The Tobacco Attack on Nigeria, 2002 Oil has caused pollution in the Niger Delta and contributed to climate and co-author Where Vultures Feast: 40 years of Shell in Nigeria. The once fertile wetlands of the Niger Delta have been transformed Vultures Feast: Forty Years of Shell in the Niger Delta, Published On February 22, 1895, a naval force laid siege to Brass, the chief city of the Ijo people of Nembe in Nigeria s Niger Delta. After severe fighting, the city was razed. More than two thousand people perished in the attack. A hundred years later, the world was shocked the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa This book deserves reading and re-reading. It is a worthy addition to the corpus of works on Africa s badly mauled ecology. Dr IKE OKONTA, author When Citizens Revolt: Nigerian Elites, Big Oil and the Ogoni Struggle for Self-Determination and co-author Where Vultures Feast: 40 years of Shell Designed architects Perry & Reed in a "Wrenaissance" style, the hotel was the largest in Europe when it opened with more than 800 rooms. The proprietor later went bankrupt and was sentenced to 14 years in prison. The Cecil was largely demolished in Autumn 1930, and Shell Mex House was built on the site. Conceived Sir David Attenborough in 1967, Natural World is the longest-running nature documentary series on British television. 2008 marked the series 25th anniversary under its present title, though its origins can be traced back to its predecessor The World About Us which began over 40 years ago. Natural World is broadcast on BBC Two in the autumn and spring seasons, with 17 episodes Key words: Niger Delta; Oil companies; CSR; Environment; Conflict Where Vultures Feast: 40 Years of Shell in the Niger Delta. Ibadan:
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