‘We were eating, drinking, breathing the oil’: the villagers who stood up to big oil – and won | Nigeria
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on June 1, 2022
Crude oil spill in Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer. Video: Modest Franco/Getty Images
Wed 1 June 2022 05.00 EDT
On 10 October 2004, Eric Dooh received an urgent call from one of his father’s employees: the waterway surrounding their houses was running black with oil. Near the outskirts of Dooh’s village of Goi, a pipeline built by Royal Dutch Shell in the 1960s carried oil from inland Nigeria to an offshore . . .
