Primary Navigation
Want to create or adapt books like this? Learn more about how Pressbooks supports open publishing practices.
Book Contents Navigation
Praise for Oil Politics
List of Abbreviations
Foreword by Ogaga Ifowodo
Preface
1. As Kogi fights over refinery location
2. Violence in the land
3. A nation split by oil
4. The 'milking' of oil workers
5. The tragedy of Ayakoromo
6. Mending MEND
7. The amnesty worked
8. I will not dance to your beat
9. Echoes of an ecological war
10. Human rights and the multiple environmental changes
11. Africa in the vice-grip of the climate crisis
12. Where are the 50-year-old trees?
13. To stop the Sahara
14. Of floods, dams and the damned
15. Flaring gas: Profiting from illegalities in Nigeria
16. How would you fly to the UK?
17. Can Cancún?
18. The betrayal of Cancún
19. A red card for California REDD
20. Ambition, selfishness and climate action
21. When oil companies volunteer
22. Environmental issues in extractive industries transparency
23. Drilling in the dark
24. So Shell is everywhere
25. Shell’s fracking moves in the Karoo
26. The coming belt of fire
27. Gas flaring, hot air and fertilisers
28. The bush refineries of the Niger Delta
29. Seekers of selective transparency
30. Charge them with manslaughter
31. Death and the kids of Zamfara
32. Resurrection in Chile
33. Caught in the Amazon
34. The cemetery of mangroves
35. The emperor with no clothes
36. Chasing tar balls in the Gulf of Mexico
37. The price of a vote
38. Running from the senate
39. Serving the nation in hostile times
40. Oil, despotism and philanthropic tokenism
41. Nigeria’s unacceptable biofuels policy
42. Slipping on oil and gas laws
43. How about the Petroleum Industry Bill?
44. The petroleum bill and last minute legislative contortion
45. Many blind spots
46. Nigerian draft Petroleum Industry Bill criminalises communities
47. Resistance as advocacy in the oil fields of Nigeria
48. Shell shrugs off Bonga fine
49. Decades of destruction: Shell in Nigeria
50. Between four farmers and Shell
51. Walking on caves of fire
52. Ogoni and the agony of a delayed clean up
53. Two years after the UNEP report: Ogoni still groans
54. Afterword
About the author
Previous/next navigation
Oil Politics Copyright © 2016 by Nnimmo Bassey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.