http://www.nigerdeltarising.org/taxonomy/term/187/all en http://www.nigerdeltarising.org/images/leaking-oil-wellhead-catches-fire <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img class="imagefield imagefield-field_image" width="1024" height="683" title="Leaking Oil Wellhead Catches Fire" alt="" src="http://www.nigerdeltarising.org/sites/default/files/images/NIG06018_15535.jpg?1250106878" /> </div> </div> </div> <p>In the Ogoniland village of Kpean, an oil wellhead that had been leaking for weeks has turned into a raging inferno. The local youths keep watch, waiting for Shell to come and put the fire out. This is an environmental disaster for the local people, as it effects their crops, their water and air.</p> http://www.nigerdeltarising.org/images/leaking-oil-wellhead-catches-fire#comments Ed Kashi environment farmer fire fishermen gas flare Kpean leak life Ogoniland oil oil damage oil fire pollution shell smoke Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:00:41 +0000 Brian 193 at http://www.nigerdeltarising.org