As usual SM....I find you to be full of bovine fecal matter!
The common factor between Nigeria and the USA in re oil spill response is the qualityof the government executive...both are corrupt as hell, talk a good game but fail miserbly when called to perform, and ignore the will of the People.
Keep swinging at them SM....odds are in a few years you might get on base with a hit for a single.
To be fair with Shell....they have had a lot of help by the locals in creating the spills. Tappers and Bunkerers have contributed to the problem as well and seems to be consistently ignored by Environmentalists from abroad who are so critical of the situation in Nigeria.
The complicity of Shell employees in the Diesel bunkering is well known. When one knows of the extent of the diversion of money by everyone in the chain....it then comes as no surprise the situation is as bad as it is. Add in an armed insurrection in the area and all that adds to the problem also gets left undiscussed as no one really wants to admit that it exists. The insurrection is described more as simple criminal activity when it is far more involved than that.
To say there is poverty in the Niger River Delta is like saying a few folks died in the Tsunami that hit Indonesia a few years back. Until that situation is reversed by sincere efforts by the Federal, State, Local governments...the Oil Companies....the situation just isn't going to change.
Literally Billions of Dollars of Oil has flowed out of the Opukushi Pump Station over the past forty years or so....and the village right across the canal from the Pump Station had no running water and only what electricity the Pump Station provided out of jury rigged electrical line. Somehow that just doesn't strike me as either Shell Oil or the Nigerian government being very interested in doing right by the people living on top of all that oil.
Having flown the fat assed Tribal Chief into that place.....and seeing how that act played really was depressing to see!