Twenty years of fighting environmental crimes
Welcome words by Nnimmo Bassey, Executive Director, ERA/FoEN (1993-2013) at event to mark the 20th Anniversary. Twenty years in defense of Mother Earth, right to life and to a safe environment of the peoples. It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to this gathering marking the 20th anniversary of the Environmental Rights Action (ERA), which is also the Nigerian chapter of Friends of the Earth International. ERA is also the host...
CDCA participates to EJOLT delegation in Nigeria
From March 14th to 23rd, CDCA and A Sud went in Nigeria to participate at the EJOLT fieldwork activities. The EJOLT fieldwork happened on the 20th anniversary of ERA – Environmental Right Action, the nigerian environmentalist organisation with which CDCA has been working for years on oil extraction’s impacts on environment, health and people’s rights. Field trips would be held in the Niger Delta, in the Ogoni area of...
Reasoning on natural resources: “New Political Spaces in Latin American Natural Resource Governance”
A new book on ‘post-neoliberal’ governance of natural resources. This book examines how natural resources are governed and struggled over in Latin America. It questions the idea the ‘post-neoliberal’ governance label and illustrates the enduring constraints on democratic and ‘just’ resource extraction. Case studies written by anthropologists, geographers, and sociologists show how resource dependencies continue to shape the political...
Dutch Court Rules Against Shell for damages in Nigeria
The ruling by a Dutch court on January 30, 2013 holding Shell responsible for the pollution of farmlands at Ikot Ada Udo (Nigeria) is a step towards environmental justice. However, the court also concluded that there was no proof that the spills at Goi in Ogoni, Rivers State and Oruma communities in Bayelsa State were not cleaned up. The plaintiffs from Goi and Oruma will appeal this ruling. And the court also dismissed all claims...
Open letter to COP 18
By Bill McKibben, Nnimmo Bassey & Pablo Solon. To really address climate change UNFCCC-COP18 should decide to leave under the soil more than 2/3 of the fossil reserves. 2012 saw the shocking melt of the Arctic, leading our greatest climatologist to declare a ‘planetary emergency,’ and it saw weather patterns wreck harvests around the world, raising food prices by 40% and causing family emergencies in poor households throughout...
High speed train in Val Susa, Italy. The end of the tunnel?
It will be almost 20 years since an entire Italian alpine valley started to resist against the development of a new high-speed train line between Lyon and Turin, the so-called TAV. Decades of resistance characterised by the implementation of multistakeholder cooperation and by the application of the postmodern science as citizenship’s tools for developing alternative proposals for the management of their territory; but also decades of...
