Essays Tagged: "Ogoni People"

Royal Dutch/Shell Case

ROYAL DUTCH/SHELL CASE1.Does Shell bear some responsibility for the problems in the Ogoni region of Nigeria?I believe Shell bears much responsibility for the problems in the Ogoni regi ... oni region. One reason is the fact that Shell has received nearly $30 billion worth of oil from the Ogoni land but has not helped the Ogoni people by providing them with jobs or money to develop their ... ple by providing them with jobs or money to develop their lands. If Shell had provided money to the Ogoni people they could have built schools and provided health care that would help the them get the ...

(5 pages) 393 1 4.3 Dec/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Shell Oil In Nigeria.

in Nigeria. Shell utilized the community to gain profits while depleting the land resources leaving Ogoniland and nearby delta communities in ruins.The people of Nigeria are made up of different ethni ... 65 percent of the population while the other 35 percent consist of various ethnic groups including Ogoni people. The River states that included Ogoniland were among the poorest in Nigeria. Most of th ...

(9 pages) 189 0 4.2 Jan/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Shell in Nigeria

nsibility for the environmental impacts that it has created in Nigeria. The people that live on the Ogoni Peninsula have witnessed oil spills, natural gas flaring, and general erosion on the land. The ... ntal laws on several occasions. With all of the environmental damage in the area, the people of the Ogoni peninsula have to live with acid rain, barren and unproductive land, death of many varieties o ...

(3 pages) 81 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Specific Policies

Royal Dutch/Shell: Human Rights in Nigeria.

1.Does Shell bear some responsibility for the problems in the Ogoni region of Nigeria?It is obvious that Shell bears responsibility for the problems in the Ogoni ... ibility for the problems in the Ogoni region of Nigeria. From 1958, Royal Dutch/Shell struck oil on Ogoni lands. By estimates, the company has extracted some $30 billion worth of oil from the region s ... ally extensive:-Large area of farmlands and fisheries had been occupied to explore oil. And because Ogoni is a powerless minority, they often overlooked when it comes to the allocation of jobs. This l ...

(7 pages) 75 0 3.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Management

l, one of the world?s largest oil companies, has been pumping almost half of Nigeria?s oil from the Ogoni lands since the late 1950s. Nigerian oil accounts for 11 to 12% of the company?s global output ... output and generates approximately $200 million in revenues per year (nearly $30B since 1937). The Ogoni region has not received any benefit from this. What they have endured is low employment levels ...

(9 pages) 136 0 3.5 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Royal Dutch Shell: Globe Business and Ethics Paper

in the Niger Delta "one of the world's most severely petroleum-impacted ecosystems" of Nigeria. The Ogoni population living in Niger Delta 75% depends on the earth for their income and the Nigerians l ... to irreversible damage and devastation to their beloved land like oil spills and deforestation. The Ogoni people formed a nonviolent movement called the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People ( ...

(4 pages) 68 0 0.0 Mar/2010

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Anti Globalization

was the execution in 1995 of Nigerian author Ken Saro-Wiwa, who had taken a leading position in the Ogoni people's campaign against the human and ecological destruction of the Niger Delta due to Royal ... Royal Dutch/Shell's oil-drilling. The Nobel Prize nominee and his Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) had blamed the Nigerian dictator, General Sani Abacha, for the murder and tortu ...

(9 pages) 34 0 0.0 Jun/2010

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Film Review on "Sweet Oil"

a tragic story of Nigeria's Niger Delta, where the violent conflict between the government and the Ogoni people living in the Niger Delta have been going on for decades, resulting in thousands of cas ... vels of sulfur and hydrogen content, also ironically reflect the miserable living conditions of the Ogoni people.The director vividly records the history of a decades-long social resistance movement, ...

(4 pages) 4 0 0.0 Feb/2014

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis