Here is an interesting article from CNN comparing "our" Gulf spill to the environmental disaster that has existed in Africa's Niger Delta.... for the past 50 YEARS...yes YEARS!....double standard?
Nigeria's Niger Delta is one of the most oil-polluted places on the planet with more than 6,800 recorded oil spills, accounting for anywhere from 9 million to 13 million barrels of oil spilled, according to activist groups. According to Amnesty International, people living in the Niger Delta have experienced oil spills on par with the Exxon Valdez disaster every year for the last half century. In over 50 years since oil production began in the Delta, this environmental disaster has never received the attention that is now being paid to the oil-spill catastrophe hitting the U.S. Gulf coast.
... the fact that Nigeria has been going through such issues for the past 50 years with little or no concern even from the U.S. government goes a long way to show you that they look at the Niger Delta as an oil field that people don't need to live in." - Honna Bowen
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/06/29/nigeria.oil/index.html?hpt=Mid
