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Re: How Do Crimes Like Blowing-Up Pipelines Develop The Niger Delta? by davidif: 2:12am On Oct 29, 2016
TonyeBarcanista:

,1. Niger Delta never dug any well but the land of some Niger Delta families was dug. The waters they fished on for their survival was polluted due to exploration activities. This has killed their predominant profession of Fishing.

2. By "law" or by the decree of one man? Who and who made the "law"? who made the Land Use. Decree? was ND Representatives involved or a certain General? Who made the Constitution? Were the people involved? If it was legal for mineral resources owners to keep 50% of their. rwenue before the. crude oil era, why make it illegal after the oil era?

3. The Niger Delta DOES NOT benefit from the peanut 13%, the elite does. Beside, we told Obj that we don't want 13% given to Governors but instead to the oil producing communities. Even the NDDC is not effective. We don't need any padipadi commission or ministry. 50% derivative, a considerable share to producing communities while we take care of spillage and degradation.

4. While I'm against carnage, I'm also against oppression.

Dude, i watched a documentary about the oil in the Niger Delta called Big Men which was very illuminating. The issue is that some of the people who sabotage the pipelines are from the community. They do it so that they can get the contract to clean up the place. The guys were asked if they knew how bad the effects of oil spillage is they said they knew but that they wanted the money. Boy when i watched this thing i was stunned shocked shocked shocked

I also spoke to someone i know of who works in the oil and gas sector and she told me how the state govts frustrate them and refuse to sign off on some maintenance work on the pipelines and how they usually insist on paying bribes before they are giving a go ahead. The oil companies refuse and when there is an accident they would still be held responsible for providing compensation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_the_Niger_Delta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPIpVCvQEAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KagZ76EXU_I
Re: How Do Crimes Like Blowing-Up Pipelines Develop The Niger Delta? by davidif: 2:19am On Oct 29, 2016
maclatunji:
It is a straightforward question. Militants and their supporters will celebrate destroying government infrastructure in the NigerDelta I imagine. However, away from the mindless jubilation, how do pipeline bombing, attacking and kidnapping oil workers bring about growth and development in the region?

One would think the region would be the most developed by now if it were an effective strategy going by the number of attacks that have occurred in the region since 1999.

Feel free to explain if you have answers to the questions. Don't come here to boast about blowing up things, I have already identified that as mindless, what I want to know is how it is an effective development strategy.

Re: How Do Crimes Like Blowing-Up Pipelines Develop The Niger Delta? by davidif: 2:20am On Oct 29, 2016
Effects of oil spill

Re: How Do Crimes Like Blowing-Up Pipelines Develop The Niger Delta? by davidif: 2:21am On Oct 29, 2016
People need to truly learn the effects of oil spillage on there environment.



Devastating oil spills in the Niger delta over the past five decades will cost $1bn to rectify and take up to 30 years to clean up, according to a UN report.

The UN Environment Programme (Unep) has announced that Shell and other oil firms systematically contaminated a 1,000 sq km (386 sq mile) area of Ogoniland, in the Niger delta, with disastrous consequences for human health and wildlife.

Nigerians had "paid a high price" for the economic growth brought by the oil industry, said Unep's executive director.

A leaked summary of Unep's Ogoniland study, the first large-scale scientific study of pollution in the area, has been seen by the Guardian. It calls for a clean-up fund of $1bn (£614m) for spills in Ogoniland, and says it will take 25-30 years to restore the environment. Much of the funding for the clean-up is expected to come from the oil companies.

The three-year investigation found:
Heavy contamination of land and underground water courses, sometimes more than 40 years after oil was spilled.

• Community drinking water with dangerous concentrations of benzene and other pollutants.

• Soil contamination more than five metres deep in many areas studied.

• Most of the spill sites oil firms claimed to have cleaned still highly contaminated.

• Evidence of oil firms dumping contaminated soil in unlined pits.

• Water coated with hydrocarbons more than 1,000 times the level allowed by Nigerian drinking water standards.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/aug/04/niger-delta-oil-spill-clean-up-un

Re: How Do Crimes Like Blowing-Up Pipelines Develop The Niger Delta? by davidif: 2:33am On Oct 29, 2016
Emycord:
How does it underdevelope nigeria. Someone is aggrieved instead of you to hear from him you suppress him cos he is minority. Then he responds with the only means that you understand: violence. If its affecting only nd will nigeria react? The truth is they are crippling nigeria economy not only nd. Now lets assume lagos port feeds the whole nation will yoruba not act same way ? Before you criticise nd think if its you what will you do

Bros, you can't cut your nose off to spite your face.

Re: How Do Crimes Like Blowing-Up Pipelines Develop The Niger Delta? by davidif: 2:49am On Oct 29, 2016
ZKOSOSO:
Yep, it awakens the desire and thirst to be in total control of the oil and it's proceeds.
its a mark of rebellion ......against the North....
It kinda gives a ''feel good'' or ''Highness '' for some time..

Afterall the environment is constantly destroyed by multinationals...
So wetin dey there?
Nobody can develop the NDELTA except the ND people themselves!! So the development of ND can only take place when the much anticipated splitting or regional govt take place in the very foreseeable future......all thanks to our Gen Casandra....the Divider...



See logic. Just read the impact of oil spill in the Niger Delta.

The Niger Delta has suffered for decades from oil spills, which occur both on land and offshore. Oil spills on land destroy crops and damage the quality and productivity of soil that communities use for farming. Oil in water damages fisheries and contaminates water that people use for drinking and other domestic purposes.7

There are a number of reasons why oil spills happen so frequently in the Niger Delta. Spills result from corrosion of oil pipes, poor maintenance of infrastructure, spills or leaks during processing at refineries,8 human error and as a consequence of deliberate vandalism or theft of oil.

http://www.eyesonnigeria.org/EON_Extractives.html

For more info on the disaster of oil spilling in Nigeria, check this out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_the_Niger_Delta
http://www.dw.com/en/oil-spills-keep-devastating-niger-delta/a-18327732
Re: How Do Crimes Like Blowing-Up Pipelines Develop The Niger Delta? by davidif: 2:50am On Oct 29, 2016
ificatchmodeh:
The op is not honest..na cunny man...
Na so dem don they use style dey blame naija delta for the environmental degradation.
While the steal the crude..and disrespect our traditional system.
Enriching their region and developing their region with the proceed from the degradation.

Op,
Your government believe that the delta regions are fools and illiterates..they made sure we stay down..and use few of our people to achieve that feat over the years..while the suck us..
What made them not to develop the naija delta or even delta and Rivers for the past 50years..yet they built Abuja, expanded lagos,kano,jigawa,e.t.c..
What's infrastructure has your government laid in Rivers for the past 30years..even the airport or seaport..what's happening to our wharfs..forget ship excuse..the whole delta has access to the ocean. why not develop it.

Now there is a conscious awaking in the delta of the vices used by you folks. To put us down..illiteracy is on the decline and people are beginning to ask questions..ideas are raised..actions taking..and you guys are getting scared..cos you..you the op knows the truth..
If not for the agitation will your government even accept the 13%..
Will your government accept amnesty?
Our state representative have their weakness..yes..but we know their limits.

Inasmuch I don't support militancy and. Destruction..if that will draw the attention of your government to their obligation..then let the land burn..
This is 21century..don't come here reasoning. Like the south is in the 18 century.


Meanwhile please don't give me our son story..being there and doing nothing..
Because I guess we all know nigeria oil politics and truth behind Jonathan's candidacy, presidency, and politics.

Is all set up..

Look at the impact of oil spill in Nigeria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEcp2gjp1LI
Re: How Do Crimes Like Blowing-Up Pipelines Develop The Niger Delta? by davidif: 3:03am On Oct 29, 2016
ificatchmodeh:
The op is not honest..na cunny man...
Na so dem don they use style dey blame naija delta for the environmental degradation.
While the steal the crude..and disrespect our traditional system.
Enriching their region and developing their region with the proceed from the degradation.

Op,
Your government believe that the delta regions are fools and illiterates..they made sure we stay down..and use few of our people to achieve that feat over the years..while the suck us..
What made them not to develop the naija delta or even delta and Rivers for the past 50years..yet they built Abuja, expanded lagos,kano,jigawa,e.t.c..
What's infrastructure has your government laid in Rivers for the past 30years..even the airport or seaport..what's happening to our wharfs..forget ship excuse..the whole delta has access to the ocean. why not develop it.

Now there is a conscious awaking in the delta of the vices used by you folks. To put us down..illiteracy is on the decline and people are beginning to ask questions..ideas are raised..actions taking..and you guys are getting scared..cos you..you the op knows the truth..
If not for the agitation will your government even accept the 13%..
Will your government accept amnesty?
Our state representative have their weakness..yes..but we know their limits.

Inasmuch I don't support militancy and. Destruction..if that will draw the attention of your government to their obligation..then let the land burn..
This is 21century..don't come here reasoning. Like the south is in the 18 century.



Meanwhile please don't give me our son story..being there and doing nothing..
Because I guess we all know nigeria oil politics and truth behind Jonathan's candidacy, presidency, and politics.

Is all set up..

Which kind reasoning be this self. Read Amnesty's international impact of oil spillage here.


Human Rights Impact
In 2001 the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (African Commission) stated, "pollution and environmental degradation to a level humanly unacceptable has made living in Ogoni land a nightmare."13 Similar pollution and environmental degradation is experienced across much of the oil producing areas of the Niger Delta.

It is important that the impact of the oil industry on the environment in the Niger Delta is understood as occurring in a context where the livelihoods, health and access to food and clean water of hundreds of thousands of people are closely linked to the land and environmental quality. The environmental damage that has been done, and continues to be done, as a consequence of oil production in the Niger Delta, has led to serious violations of human rights.

People living in the Niger Delta have to drink, cook with, and wash in polluted water; they eat fish contaminated with oil and other toxins - if they are lucky enough to still be able to find fish; the land they use for farming is being destroyed because of the lack of respect for the ecosystem necessary for their survival; after oil spills the air they breathe reeks of oil and gas and other pollutants; they complain of breathing problems, skin lesions and other health problems, but their concern are not taken seriously and they have almost no information on the impacts of pollution.

http://www.eyesonnigeria.org/EON_Extractives.html


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuqLfH1SW98

Re: How Do Crimes Like Blowing-Up Pipelines Develop The Niger Delta? by davidif: 3:07am On Oct 29, 2016
Re: How Do Crimes Like Blowing-Up Pipelines Develop The Niger Delta? by davidif: 3:10am On Oct 29, 2016
gidgiddy:


Lets say you have a water well in your own compound. Out of the goodness of your heart, you allow all your neigbours to benefit from your well by connecting pipes to their homes and beyond. Overtime, you find out the consumotion of your own water by others has become so high that there is no longer enough for you and your family. You go to your neigbours and complain that you want to now control how this water is distributed and shared so as to have enough for your self, but your neigbours ignore you, some even insult you.

How long will it be before you disconnect your neigbours to remind them owns the well?

Bros, its waaaaaaay more complex than that. Have you ever taken time to study the effects of oil spillage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4nYd4KSec8
Re: How Do Crimes Like Blowing-Up Pipelines Develop The Niger Delta? by davidif: 3:13am On Oct 29, 2016
Emycord:
How does it underdevelope nigeria. Someone is aggrieved instead of you to hear from him you suppress him cos he is minority. Then he responds with the only means that you understand: violence. If its affecting only nd will nigeria react? The truth is they are crippling nigeria economy not only nd. Now lets assume lagos port feeds the whole nation will yoruba not act same way ? Before you criticise nd think if its you what will you do

Guy, do you have any idea how bad the effects of oil pollution is in the environment.


Oil spillage has a major impact on the ecosystem into which it is released and may constitute ecocide. Immense tracts of the mangrove forests, which are especially susceptible to oil (mainly because it is stored in the soil and re-released annually during inundations), have been destroyed. An estimated 5 to 10% of Nigerian mangrove ecosystems have been wiped out either by settlement or oil. The rainforest which previously occupied some 7,400 km² of land has disappeared as well.

Spills in populated areas often spread out over a wide area, destroying crops and aquacultures through contamination of the groundwater and soils. The consumption of dissolved oxygen by bacteria feeding on the spilled hydrocarbons also contributes to the death of fish. In agricultural communities, often a year's supply of food can be destroyed instantaneously. Because of the careless nature of oil operations in the Delta, the environment is growing increasingly uninhabitable.

People in the affected areas complain about health issues including breathing problems and skin lesions; many have lost basic human rights such as health, access to food, clean water, and an ability to work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_the_Niger_Delta


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e3_bkKwgQY
Re: How Do Crimes Like Blowing-Up Pipelines Develop The Niger Delta? by davidif: 3:31am On Oct 29, 2016
izombie:
Op here is a question for you . how has not blowing pipelines and oil facilities for decades developed niger delta?
Do you even know the impact of oil spillage on an enviroment? Boss, you can't cut your fingers to punish your hands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPIpVCvQEAI
Re: How Do Crimes Like Blowing-Up Pipelines Develop The Niger Delta? by davidif: 3:49am On Oct 29, 2016
Sweetle:


Oga, you have exposed nothing.

TonyeBarcanista raised some very valid questions.

One thing you must note is that if there is no Nigeria today you cannot come all the way from the north to claim crude oil located in waters with boundaries around the Niger Delta.


Research the debilitating effects of crude oil on the environment, its scary.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2yPii0yz10

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