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Nnimmo Bassey on Justice for the Earth Community, "Keep the Oil in the Soil"

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Uploaded by on Nov 22, 2011

Extracts from the Gaia Evening talk Justice for the Earth Community: Defending the Rights of Nature and Holding Corporations to Account, given by Nnimmo Bassey in September 2011.

Nnimmo Bassey is a Nigerian environmental activist and poet, and head of Friends of the Earth International. In 2010 Nnimmo received the Right Livelihood Award (alternative Nobel Peace Prize) and featured in Time Magazines 'Heroes of the Environment' in 2009.

In this talk Nnimmo explores the severe environmental impacts of oil extraction in the Niger Delta. He also discusses the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster off the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010, the Rights of Nature and corporate responsibility campaigns in relation to cases in Ecuador and Nigeria.

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  • Kwame Nkrumah was the first president of Ghana (not Kenya). Pardon the slip!

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