by Nnimmo | Jan 27, 2016 | Analysis, Corporate Capture, Dirty Energy, Environment
There are two oily stories that should catch our attention. One is about designing and fabrication of a refinery at a Nigerian university and the second one is about new dates for ending gas flaring in Nigeria. First is the news that the Department of Chemical...
by Nnimmo | Jan 25, 2016 | Analysis, Climate Change, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Corporate Capture, Dirty Energy, Environment, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth
Download and read the 10th edition of Eco-Instigator Analyses of COP21, Reports and Books you should read. All in the package. Read. Share. Send comments. Contribute to future editions. Eco-Instigator #10
by Nnimmo | Jan 24, 2016 | Analysis, Climate Change, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Corporate Capture, Dirty Energy, Environment, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth, Stories
As is the tradition of HOMEF, Eco-Instigator #10 was issued at close of December 2015 in order to bring you some comments from the Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Needless to say that we were at COP21 and came...
by Nnimmo | Jan 19, 2016 | Analysis, Dirty Energy, Environment, Militarism
Recent bombings of oil pipelines in the Niger Delta again raise the spectre of escalation of conflicts in the region. While we cannot say the reasons for the incidents, it does appear to be calculated acts of sabotage rather than mere vandalism. In cases of vandalism...
by Nnimmo | Jan 15, 2016 | Analysis, Climate Change, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Environment, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth
Gas flaring is the obnoxious practice of burning natural gas associated with crude oil extraction. To use the words of Joseph Croft of Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN) in the excellent environmental documentary film No Where to Run, the gas flares are like giant...
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