something-to-say: (photo: Jane Hahn for The New York Times) A cautionary tale for the U.S. With new estimates that as many as 2.5 million gallons of oil could be spilling into the Gulf of Mexico each day, the Niger Delta has suddenly become a cautionary tale for the United States. As many as 546 million gallons of oil spilled into the Niger Delta over the last five decades, or nearly 11 million gallons a year, a team of experts for the Nigerian government and international and local environmental groups concluded in a 2006 report. By comparison, the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989 dumped an estimated 10.8 million gallons of oil into the waters off Alaska. So the people here cast a jaundiced, if sympathetic, eye at the spill in the gulf. “We’re sorry for them, but it’s what’s been happening to us for 50 years,” said Emman Mbong, an official in Eket. So when are we going to start doing some SERIOUS research into alternative energy sources? When are we going to stand up against this world greed? When are people going to realize that we have a responsibility to make sure things like this doesn’t happen? A human, ethical, and moral responsibility for the things that not only happen in our homes, but across the world?ALL of us. Not just a certain group of people.

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(photo: Jane Hahn for The New York Times)

A cautionary tale for the U.S.

With new estimates that as many as 2.5 million gallons of oil could be spilling into the Gulf of Mexico each day, the Niger Delta has suddenly become a cautionary tale for the United States.

As many as 546 million gallons of oil spilled into the Niger Delta over the last five decades, or nearly 11 million gallons a year, a team of experts for the Nigerian government and international and local environmental groups concluded in a 2006 report. By comparison, the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989 dumped an estimated 10.8 million gallons of oil into the waters off Alaska.

So the people here cast a jaundiced, if sympathetic, eye at the spill in the gulf. “We’re sorry for them, but it’s what’s been happening to us for 50 years,” said Emman Mbong, an official in Eket.

So when are we going to start doing some SERIOUS research into alternative energy sources? When are we going to stand up against this world greed? When are people going to realize that we have a responsibility to make sure things like this doesn’t happen? A human, ethical, and moral responsibility for the things that not only happen in our homes, but across the world?ALL of us. Not just a certain group of people.

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    oil-plagued Niger River Delta,
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    I hope this message picks up more momentum - because my feelings are the same. I TRULY AM fed up with oil companies...
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    This is utter bullshit. I mean...see all these BP commercials about them researching
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    Can someone please, just save
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    yet so sad. I apppreciate
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