Cut and run – Pollute, don’t pay. Big Oil has perfected its playbook in the Niger Delta and is now looking to walk away.
By Ken Henshaw First published on New Internationalist The two largest transnational oil companies operating in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, Shell and ExxonMobil, are packing up and leaving. Both companies have announced separate plans to sell off their assets as soon as they find buyers and to leave the Niger Delta, where they have extracted crude oil…