Sweet and Sour: The Curse of Oil in the Niger Delta

By Michael Watts, originally published by Post Carbon Institute/Foundation for Deep Ecology

October 28, 2013

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This essay comes from the book ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth Published by the Foundation for Deep Ecology in collaboration with Watershed Media and Post Carbon Institute.

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Sweet and Sour: The Curse of Oil in the Niger Delta – Michael Watts

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Michael Watts

Michael Watts is Director of African Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. The author of eight books,he has published widely on Nigeria and the Niger Delta over the last three decades. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001 for his work on the impact of oil in Africa.

Tags: energy industry, energy-reality, Natural Gas, Nigeria, Oil, resource conflicts, resource curse

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