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...Undergraduate Council are calling for divestment because these companies are part of the Global Climate Coalition, an industry group working to undermine the broad scientific consensus that human induced global warming is a threat to human health and the environment and are severely violating human rights in Nigeria...
Several years ago, the Undergraduate Council passed a resolution calling for divestment from the oil companies with operations in Nigeria due to the human rights violations being committed in this country. Renewing the call for divestment from Shell Oil and other oil corporations operating in Nigeria sends the message to these companies to begin involving local citizens in the Niger Delta Region in the decision making processes of oil extraction, and to uphold financial, social, and environmental responsibility to these same communities. FRANK J. GORKE April...
...Undergraduate Council are calling for divestment because these companies are part of the Global Climate Coalition, an industry group working to undermine the broad scientific consensus that human induced global warming is a threat to human health and the environment and are severely violating human rights in Nigeria...
...production cuts among 10 of its members. Saudi Arabia alone seems prepared to accept reductions of 500,000 bbl. a day in output. But that still leaves 1.5 million bbl. in reduced production and revenues to divvy up among the other members. Many of them, including Iran, Indonesia, Nigeria and Venezuela, are in much greater need of cash than even the Saudis. "I don't like to project what is going to happen," Saudi oil czar Naimi told TIME last week. "But I believe we will be successful in coming to an agreement to reduce surplus inventory and to lift...
...hand, we protest the egregious activities of Shell Oil in Nigeria in defense of the health of local inhabitants and the local environment. Yet on the other hand, we protest the destruction of Indonesian rainforests by poverty-stricken farmers for the sake of "biodiversity." So is environmentalism a socially progressive movement that protects the little person from corporate exploitation? Or is it an imperialist project that seeks to prevent people from using their own resources due to a belief that tropical forests matter more than local welfare...