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[Nyombi Morris @mnyomb1]

Last week A UK 🇬🇧 supreme court denied compensation to oil spill victims in the Niger Delta after the #Shell oil leak severely harmed their water, crops, and livelihoods, as well as destroying their land.

Shell's Bonga oil field leaked 40,000 barrels of oil off Nigeria's 🇳🇬coast in 2011.

The leak contaminated forests, farms, and drinking water for 27,800 people in the Niger Delta.

However, the UK Supreme Court has ruled that they have missed the window for legal action.

The Niger Delta is one of the most polluted areas on the planet.

Every year, hundreds of oil spills pollute the water with cancer-causing toxins.

Life expectancy is only 41 years.

Under the British colonial administration, Shell began drilling for oil in Nigeria in the 1950s.

Since then, thousands of oil spills have been traced to Shell Eni and other firms.

Shell attributes almost all spills to "sabotage."

Prior to 2011, the UN estimated that cleaning up Shell's prior oil spills in Ogoniland may take 30 years.

Since then, at least 1,369 other Shell oil spills have occurred, resulting in the release of nearly 4.6 million gallons of oil.

The delta region is Africa's biggest oil producer, but that mostly benefits companies like Shell, Chevron, Eni, and ExxonMobil.

70% of the population lives on less than $1 a day.

The majority of oil wealth is concentrated in the hands of government elites and international oil firms.

One day Nigerian security forces brutally crushed peaceful anti-oil rallies in the 1990s, killing at least 80 Ogoni people.

Shell was charged with participation in the crackdowns and murders of the Ogoni Nine activists.

However, it denied this, and the latter case was dismissed by a Dutch court.

Shell is now facing more lawsuits from communities in the Niger Delta affected by oil pollution.

#shell #people #oilandgas #pollution #nigerdelta #fossilfuels #environment #polluterspay

[Climate Defiance @ClimateDefiance]

BREAKING: Biden is coming to NYC tomorrow. And so are we.

The President will attend a $25,000-per-plate fundraiser at a private equity CEO's $24,900,000 apartment. We're showing up, too. We will make ourselves heard.

Share widely. We need everyone.

[gaintjody @gaintjody]

@JudiciaryGOP @Jim_Jordan They keep you safe, they don’t keep us safe

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Kentucky Sheriff Hires Former Louisville Cop Who Fired Shot That Killed Breonna Taylor https://t.co/MMDKNUmNEl

[gaintjody @gaintjody]

@BooksandMelanin @deray By then you will have forgotten what clean looks like

[Steven Donziger @SDonziger]

BREAKING: Georgia police shot "Cop City" protestor Manuel Terán 57 times in the first state killing of a climate activist in the US. Official autopsy also shows Terán did not fire a gun which obliterates the police narrative.

Evidence Terán was executed is overwhelming.

[gaintjody @gaintjody]

@DetmerSteve @tplohetski I’m not sure pointing a car at someone is any less deadly than pointing a gun

[A Left-Wing Account ™️ @PushDemsLeft]

Friendly reminder - It's not that Biden can't cancel the predatory and inhumane debt crushing ordinary Americans, it's that he simply doesn't want to.

[gaintjody @gaintjody]

ACAB

[WCPO 9 @WCPO]

Bethel's village administrator said Police Chief Chad Essert was "by far the most professional" applicant for the job, but his personnel records show he was terminated or forced to resign three times in six previous jobs. https://t.co/FlP2ouZ0t7

[WCPO 9 @WCPO]

Numerous residents complained to the Ohio EPA, Clermont County Public Health, the Southwest Ohio Air Quality Agency and local officials over the past six weeks. https://t.co/VPXPsJ4kUu

[Steven Donziger @SDonziger]

A Harvard Law professor who founded the school's environment program is paid $350,000 annually by @conocophillips – the notorious polluter developing the planet-destroying Willow oil project in Alaska.

Unethical and corrupt. @JodyFreemanHLS
https://t.co/4xCBKYyB81

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

A lot will depend now on @SenatorDurbin and @SenSchumer to see what kind of civil rights legacy they want for themselves. Just incredible disregard for constitutional values by Biden if he moves forward with this nomination.

[gaintjody @gaintjody]

The future is rad

[Jesse Brenneman @Jesse_Brenneman]

I like to joke around about the man who owns this website, but it can’t be said enough that in addition to being a very stupid man, he is a very bad man.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Biden broke rail workers’ strike, detonated a climate bomb, helped drug giants keep charging cancer victims $180,000 for a government-developed medicine — all while he bailed out Silicon Valley elites.

Now his poll numbers are plummeting.

Nobody coulda predicted…

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

Today, House Republicans are holding a sham hearing to stop student debt cancelation. Here's how much college cost when they went to school—and how much it is today:

1. Virginia Foxx
Tuition Then: $310
Tuition 2023: $7,019

[United Farm Workers @UFWupdates]

Georgia Senator @ossoff introduced a bill to cut farm worker wages. For example: if this bill passed, growers in GA would be able to reduce H2A worker pay by 14%, suppressing wages for entire communities.

Hundreds of millions of dollars would be withheld from farm workers. 1/

[Midwestern Marx @MidwesternMarx]

Capitalists don’t believe in humanity and it’s potential for greatness. They believe we’ve reached the end of history.

What a depressing ideology! No wonder so much of the Western youth has fallen into doomerism & depression.

Socialism = Belief in & Hope for HUMANITY!!