1.0 link 137878 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-firger/landmark-human-rights-tri_b_137878.html Nigeria's Delta State is not a good place to be an environmentalist. In fact, it's not a very good place to be a Nigerian. Delta State is quite a nice place for oil companies though; since oil was found there in 1956 multinationals like Chevron and Shell have extracted billions of barrels of crude -- currently, between 1.8 and 2.5 million barrels a day -- from across the oil-rich Niger River Delta, leaving a destitute and despoiled landscape in their...

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