Case Challenge - Niger Delta

[Hsiu Chang]

This is the case study challenge.  Two files, presented to the team by

Konrad Kutter

University of Kentucky

ASCE Chapter President

Civil Engineering Undergraduate

Konrad...@uky.edu

(703) 772-5304

[Hsiu Chang]

Oil Bunkering - Oil Theft by Siphoning Crude from pipeline into makeshift vehicle

http://www.worldoil.com/Oil_bunkering_in_Nigeria_7_of_Nigerias_crude_oil_stolen_daily.html

[Alex Mazin]

Hi team,

Attached is a word document with information and links that I found around incentivize the people of Nigeria. 

Hopefully this is a good starting point.

best,

Alex

[Stephanie Austin]

Thanks for the research, Alex.

 

Looks like a great overview!

 

Could you add (copy and paste, voila!) it to the group-research google doc too?

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MfUxQrBeHdf6aaa6JBOzDpXsLPOUBNqf2STOdgnM
m7I/edit?usp=sharing

 

 

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[Joelle Gamble]

I've added my research to the doc. It's also attached here.

Joelle

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[Noorjahan Rahman]

I've also added my research to the doc and have attached it as well. 

Thanks,

Noor

Noorjahan Rahman 

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My Website

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" -MLK (via Theodore Parker) 

[Robert Avakian]

One NGO which doesn't see 'bunkering' as a problem... just a symptom.   http://www.oilwatchafrica.org/content/who-we-are

 

The history seems to point to them being very right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogoni_people

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Hsiu Chang <ober...@gmail.com> wrote:

Oil Bunkering - Oil Theft by Siphoning Crude from pipeline into makeshift vehicle

http://www.worldoil.com/Oil_bunkering_in_Nigeria_7_of_Nigerias_crude_oil_stolen_daily.html

[Stephanie Austin]

So THAT's why my State Dept contact said "look to Ghana"!

 

From the wiki article:

"According to oral tradition, the Ogoni people migrated from ancient Ghana down to the Atlantic coast eventually making their way over to the eastern Niger Delta. "

 

Anyone else feel like a detective? :)

[Stephanie Austin]

Movie time (to get an understanding of the oil stuff):

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Crude

 

"Sweet Crude" is petroleum industry slang for oil that has low levels of sulfur and hydrogen when it's pumped from the ground. Firms who use oil for gasoline refining favor sweet crude, and one of the world's largest supplies can be found in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. However, though billions of dollars worth of high-quality crude oil has been harvested in the Niger Delta, nearly all the money has gone into the pockets of a few large petroleum companies, while the people who make their homes near the oil fields live in desperate poverty. Angry over shortages of food and drinking water and the lack of medical care, schools and proper sanitation in the area, a number of Nigerians have begun demanding economic justice, and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (or MEND) is an activist group who believe the Nigerian people deserve their fair share of the profits the nation's oil has produced. But some activists affiliated with MEND are not above using kidnapping as a tool of political change, which has led to them being branded as terrorists in the international media. Filmmaker Sandy Cioffi traveled to the Niger Delta to make a film about efforts to build a library there, and as she became aware of the area's economic divide and the efforts of MEND to bring the world's attention to their plight, Cioffi was convinced there was a bigger story waiting to be told. Sweet Crude is a documentary about the struggle of the Nigerian people to improve their lot in life, and their ongoing battle against their government and a handful of powerful multinational corporations. Sweet Crude was an official selection at the 2009 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

 

On April 12, 2008, members of the Sweet Crude filmmaking crew were detained by the Nigerian military Joint Task Force while traveling by boat in the Niger Delta. The crew was taken into custody and subsequently handed over to the Nigerian State Security Services.^[1] They were held for seven days without being charged and without access to legal counsel. They were released Friday, April 18.

 

- Stephanie

[Robert Avakian]

We have a defective Nigerian government that is funded by oil money-

 

We have a european-based company which is so well connected with that government that it can get away with neglegence both affecting  human rights and environment,

 

We have armed paramilitary groups which steal oil from the companies in the name of returning profits to the Nigerian ppl...however, they are no better with their human rights/ violence/ environmental record....

 

A systemic problem: The problem, as I see it, is the government not holding the oil companies accountable in the first place, and not being accountable to the people of Nigeria.  Bunkering is not the problem...  Un-regulated resource extraction and maybe redistribution of wealth based on that resource extraction are.

[Konrad Kutter]

Hey Team,

I'am sorry I haven't uploaded my research yet! I plan to upload it tonight or tomorrow.

 I hope everyone has a great holiday weekend!

Kind Regards,

-Konrad

Konrad Kutter

[Hsiu Chang]

Hi Guys

http://www.hulu.com/watch/442857

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[Hsiu Chang]

http://www.youtube.com/user/solomonsydelle?feature=watch

has a lot of good clips from CNN and BBC about Niger and its new president Goodluck Jonathan.  It also has reporting on the 2011 election registration, which we can use if we choose to work towards 2015 election