Four Americans working on the documentary Sweet Crude, about the impact of the petroleum industry on the economy and environment of the Niger Delta, were arrested in Nigeria this weekend and are still being detained. A Nigerian man accompanying them was also seized. Nigeria is Africa's largest oil exporter and the fourth-largest exporter to the United States, and its petroleum industry is infamous for pollution, injustice, and corruption.
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Posted 4:58 PM on 15 Apr 2008
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Delay And Deny Posted 11:19 am
15 Apr 2008
We are the 4th, but China is the largest importer of Nigerian crude.
If anyone is to blame in Africa for problems such as Sudan and Niger, it's the Chinese government.
Tibet is just a feather compared to the tons of impacts China -- who has what seems to be zero international conscience -- has on the world.
Protest China.
Protest the Olympics.
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Wolverine Posted 12:57 pm
15 Apr 2008
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dayla2000 Posted 10:18 pm
15 Apr 2008
Even though they're the first and we're the fourth, that doesn't mean that we have any less say in what goes on in Nigeria. In fact, as Wolverine pointed out, we host their head offices. I think the American public needs to start talking to members of its own nation before wagging its finger at others.
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