In het VN hoofdkwartier “Carbon Credits” in het Duitse Bonn klinkt eventjes een “whoopsi”. Dit keer geen klimaat-alarmistische IPCC rapporten met overgeschreven schoolwerkstukjes en fondsenwerf-angstcampagnes die de zelfbenoemde “klimaat-kredietbank” laat zweten. Nope. “Het fantastische werk van de VN-collega’s die nogal opzichtig beweren dat Nigerianen zelf hun land vervuilen in plaats van oliereus Shell misschien?”, hoor ik jullie vragen. Nope. Denk meer in de richting van het Wereldnatuurfonds/oerwoud-credits-schandaal. Hoe geniaal is dit? Terwijl de VN bepaalde chemische fabrieken beloont (met carbon-credits) voor het vernietigen van bepaalde broeikasgassen, beloont de VN diezelfde chemische fabrieken voor het produceren van diezelfde broeikasgassen. Conflictje tussen het “Verdrag van Koyoto” (broeikasgassen weg) en het “Verdrag van Montreal” (ozonlaag vriendelijke gassen gebruiken, graag).
Op naar het volgende cap&trade schandaal......
“Het fantastische werk van de VN-collega’s die nogal opzichtig beweren dat Nigerianen zelf hun land vervuilen in plaats van oliereus Shell misschien?”, hoor ik jullie vragen.
Here's some facts for you- as opposed to pseudo-intellectual scientific methodological analysis:
1) The Shell co in Nigeria is 55% owned by the Nigerian Government, 30% by Shell, 10% by TOTAL and 5% by ENI.
2) The way the deal works is that Shell as operator gets about USD1-3 per barrel produced as profit after equity split and taxes/royalties-paid solely to Government
3) The oil co share is not really price sensitive to world markets as its essentially capped
4) The Nigerian Gov has earned at least half a trillion dollars from its Shell operated JV since 1960- where is it?
5) Shell has not been in Ogoni since 1995. Its oil wells were plugged and shut in by the company then. Since that date any access to the equipment for maintenance purposes has been denied unless payments are made to certain individuals/community "projects"
6) The major trunk lines operated by a number of oil co's that cross ogoni land have been attacked for crude oil theft almost incessantly since 2003. This is not a Robin Hood operation-its major heavily armed militias lining their pockets- usually working with kleptocrats in government at all levels.
7) These attacks/thefts cause major spills. Clear up access is denied unless...see 5 above.
8) Shell made the mistake of getting involved with UNEP because the Nigerian government demanded it do so - and was unwilling to pay anything itself towards the study.
9) That of course flaws the study.....
10) And lots of people who have never been near the Delta get to pontificate out of their fundaments ad nauseum.
@Tompolo
@tompolo, God bless you for the facts.
The fact is that Shell is not the problem. what is destroying the Niger-Delta is an unaccountable and greed government that taxes operators at 85% (petroleum profit tax) yet fails to invest any of that money in the region.
But the people must also take a LOT of the blame, I know this is not politically correct, but it is not natural resources that develop a region. It is the human resources. Switzerland and Japan have little or no resources but excel. Nigeria, Congo etc have so much .... yet so little...
It is the people , not the company... I am from the region , I know
Tompolo has the story essentially correct -
I am down here in Nigeria and heartily fed up reading ill informed politically driven bilge from nitwit armchair liberals.
It's high time the Guardian started doing package tours down here for its readers so that they can acquaint themselves with a few uncomfortable truths.
The "left wing" narrative that's promulgated on these pages is a gross misrepresentation of Africa in general and Nigeria in particular.
Dat Shell gebruik maakt van dit regime om mensen te onderdrukken en weg te jagen uit hun leefomgeving, zodat Shell in dit gebied naar olie kan boren is zeker allemaal oke?
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