Friday, March 30, 2012

Nigeria 1990 - Canada 2012 - back to the future...

During the 1990s, entire villages -men, women and children- were massacred in the Niger delta to make room for oil and gas development. Twenty years later, the Nigerian oil fields are depleted and the ecosystem is destroyed - in spite of all the promises of environmental reclamation.

Now -in 2012- the Conservative-backed multi-national oil and gas industry is bringing is bringing this same promise of prosperity to a country near you...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/03/30/pol-first-nations-northern-gateway-reaction.html

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