Videos And Websites Relevant To Oil Spill
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Category 1: Shell And The Niger Delta Oil Spill
Date Posted: February 20th, 2010
Summary: The truth of what Shell is doing and how it affects the planet. The voice is what the Shell company is telling us, but what really is happening is in the video.
Date (Since): 2014
Summary: This is an organization in UK (United Kingdom) that is an activist website. It has plenty of information on oil spill, especially more on Shell and the truth behind the scenes.
Date Posted: March 28th, 2010
Summary: This video features Bradford Houppe, who is the vice president of the Ethical Affairs Committee at Shell, coming out and apologizing in public for Shell’s bad affect on the environment, although many still think that the words are just words, yet the effect, is still happening.
Date Posted: June 3rd, 2009
Summary: This is a very touching and sad video on what happens in Nigeria, where Shell does the most of the drilling. It also features Ken Saro-Wiwa, a writer and environmental activist who is the leader of the whole change. He got killed by the Nigerian government because Shell sentenced him and the 8 colleagues (John Kpuinen, Saturday Doobee, Felix Nuate, Daniel Gbokoo and Barinem Kiobel) who helped him, to death.
Date Posted: June 17th, 2009
Summary: Shell decided to pay $15.5 million dollars to cover up the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa.
Date Posted: November 9th, 2011
Summary: This is what happened to the people in Niger Delta. This is what Shell did to them and how the oil spill affects them and their lives.
Date Posted: July 9th, 2012
Summary: This is a short documentary about what life is like in the Niger Delta in many points of views like the villagers, who can’t fish anymore, the three illegal workers who started a business in Nigeria selling oil that they have to filter by hand, Nigeria’s Shell’s CEO, who thinks that they didn’t do anything and the government of Nigeria who is partnering with Shell. Shell also wrote in the form that they were supposed to record about the oil spill, that the spill was about 20 barrels, but can 20 barrels cover up the whole river?
Date Posted: October 8, 2013
Summary: This video is what happened to cause the huge oil spill in the Niger Delta that changed the lives of many. A few years ago, there had been a huge explosion caused by an oil site that was owned by Shell. It blown up the area and oil leaked from the pipes. The people of the Niger Delta are sure that Shell knew that this site had very high risks of blowing up, since they had put the military, or the people guarding the site about 100 meters away from the actual area. This site is a place where oil is often tapped off, making oil slowly spill from it each day. The Shell company in Nigeria had said that oil was being stolen in Bodo (Niger Delta) and that the contractors were not involved. Shell runs the area now, and the people do not get any money from the oil. Shell accused the people of stealing the oil from the pipe lines, but they say that they didn’t. The pipes aren’t that easily broken and only the people with engines and electricity can break in, so they think that it’s the rich that is stealing it.
Date: 2016
Summary: This is a section in the Shell website about the oil spill. This time, it is in Shell’s point of view and what they think they have done and what they can do.
Website By: Boomer and Dr. Skimmer
Date: Unknown
Summary: This tells you what equipments are used during an oil spill. It may give you an idea of what we can raise money to buy to support the people in Nigeria.
