Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Rampant oil theft ravages Nigeria's Delta

Reuters: The sound of fleeing feet rustles from the undergrowth in this swampy enclave in Nigeria's Delta, where a fire burns beneath an open tank of crude oil and black smoke fills the sky. Criminal gangs are quick to run when boats approach the illegal refineries all over the Niger Delta, a region of creeks and waterways latticed by hundreds of kilometers of unguarded pipelines pumping valuable oil. Standing in a foot of oily water, behind a steel tank of hot crude percolating down pipes, Peter, 38,...

URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/04/us-nigeria-delta-idUSBRE85310O20120604?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29
Enclosure: http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20120604&t=2&i=615144271&w=460&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=CBRE8531M0N00

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