BP tanks. Meanwhile, in someone else’s backyard…

According to this article in The Guardian, the US outcry over the BP leak in the Gulf is as usual rather myopic coming from the world’s largest per capita consumer of oil.

Look at the situation in Nigeria:

According to Nigerian academics, writers and environment groups, oil companies have acted with such impunity and recklessness that much of the region has been devastated by leaks.

In fact, more oil is spilled from the delta’s network of terminals, pipes, pumping stations and oil platforms every year than has been lost in the Gulf of Mexico, the site of a major ecological catastrophe caused by oil that has poured from a leak triggered by the explosion that wrecked BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig last month.

I think the US public is right to be up-in-arms about the BP leak – but I think it’s anger should go further.

(Source: The Guardian)

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