Nigeria’s agony dwarfs the Gulf oil spill. The US and Europe ignore it.
30th May 2010
In fact, more oil is spilled from the delta’s network of terminals, pipes, pumping stations and oil platforms every year than has been lost in the Gulf of Mexico, the site of a major ecological catastrophe caused by oil that has poured from a leak triggered by the explosion that wrecked BP‘s Deepwater Horizon rig last month.
But of course. Who cares what happens on the fringe of the SWPL world?