Nigerian oil pipeline on fire

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Lagos - Nigerian militants have set fire to a major oil pipeline and are preventing engineers from inspecting it five days after the pipeline was reported ruptured, Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell said on Thursday.

The 18-inch (45cm) Assa-Rumuekpe crude oil pipeline was reported to be leaking on November 27 in the Egbeda community's territory to the west of the city of Port Harcourt in the volatile Niger Delta region, Shell said.

The company's Nigerian arm, SPDC, sent an investigation team to the area but, as they began working, an unidentified group set fire to the spill while local youths chased the engineers away from the site, a statement said.

"The militants have also seized two SPDC vehicles... Rivers State Government agencies have been approached to intervene in the interest of safety of lives and the environment," the company's statement said.

News24

[PATRICK]

1. Learned from Iraqis

Stop the flow for multiple results. One could be saving YOUR oil fro a more lucrative endgame future when YOU will control your own profits.

Or nothing to the exploiters. Win win since they are losing under any other "cooperative" scenario.

It is now too late for the greedy to realize their mistake. But that is what greed does. It devours the mind and then the goal. It should never be the basis of any policy making body or nation. It can't work because it is morally suicidal and exploitive.