Across the Niger Delta, the profound legacy of environmental destruction by multinational oil and gas companies reverberates, with pollution evident in the creeks, rivers and the air.
The current soot crisis in Rivers is, however, largely linked to illegal oil refining – a lucrative hidden market trade that has become an essential part of life in the city, complicating efforts to curb it.
The absence of the capitalist oil companies is very, very, much worse than their presence……
In other words, they can’t blame the wicked white foreigners. It’s actually the fault of the local blacks.
And the law is already not being enforced against the illegal refineries.