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| Companies like Agip, Chevron, Shell and Total burn the gas released during the oil extraction process, causing acid rain and changing the marine biotope as a result of their seismic activities far from the coast. Drinking water is contaminated by oil leaks in drill holes which are not properly sealed, and fish can only be caught in the polluted waterways. Tons of oil have been extracted from the Niger Delta every day since the 1960s, and all the money goes to the multinationals and the Nigerian government. The local population, on the other hand, confronted with the negative effects of the oil industry, has only disadvantages.Ever since the beginning of the 1990s, local guerrilla groups have been throwing a spanner in the works of oil production – it is a long and complicated history. The MEND movement demands a share of the oil money and was the first group to radicalize the fight, taking western oil employees hostage. |