Shell Re-Ignites Flares in Gbarantoru Community
Highlight: Flares in the middle of the community, impacting houses, causing hearing difficulties Location: Gbarantoru community, Ekpetiama Kingdom, Yenagoa Local Government Area, Bayelsa State. Date of Visit: Saturday, March 1, 2024 Introduction ‘’ All peoples shall have the right to a general satisfactory environment favourable to their development’’ Article 24, African Charter on Human and […]
FIELD REPORT: Shell preparing to “shell” Gbarantoru environment again with noxious fumes
Highlight: The leadership of Gbarantoru has expressed serious concerns about the planned gas flare installation in the community. Location: Gbarantoru community, Ekpetiama Kingdom, Yenagoa Local Government, Bayelsa State Date of Visit: Saturday 20 January 2024 INTRODUCTION: Gbarantoru community is host to Shell Petroleum Development Company [SPDC] oil wells and oil/gas bearing pipelines. The community has […]
(ERA/FoEN) and Zero Waste Ambassadors (ZEWA) Pay a Sensitization visit to Ikpoba-Oka Local Government Area.
In the face of increasing climate issues in the world today, the Zero Waste Practice is the solution to the excess production of waste and its disposal. This was made known during a sensitization meeting by Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) and Zero Waste Ambassadors (ZEWA) to the Environmental Health Officers […]
ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS ACTION/ FRIENDS OF THE EARTH NIGERIA | ZERO WASTE MANAGEMENT MODEL IN NIGERIA
By Ubrei-Joe Maimoni Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has focused its efforts on promoting our zero-waste model more vigorously. The model has great appeal and enables the potential for a shift from plastic utilization and a move towards separation at source, composting, recycling, and waste reduction mechanisms in communities where the model […]
Oil and the Niger Delta: Chima Williams and His struggle for environmental justice.
In the aftermath of disastrous oil spills in Nigeria, environmental lawyer Chima Williams worked with two communities to hold Royal Dutch Shell accountable for the resultant widespread environmental damage. On January 29, 2021, the Court of Appeal of the Hague ruled that not only was Royal Dutch Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary responsible for the oil spills […]
Exxon Mobil Cannot ‘Divest’ Without Ecological, Livelihood and Health Restoration
The Ibeno host community people in Nigeria have received alarm and sadness current happening around the proposed sale of the oil extraction assets of Exxon Mobil to Seplat, as the former plans to leave the Ibeno community where it has extracted crude oil for the last 60 years. In the last weeks, the Ibeno people […]
ERA/FoENigeria leads FoE Africa Delegation to ECOWAS
Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria led the Friends of the Earth Africa (FoE Africa) delegation on Saturday 18th June 2022 to seek the intervention of the ECOWAS Parliament in the exploitative activities and human rights violations by industrial plantation companies whose operations in the region are causing untold impacts on indigenous peoples and […]
ERA/FoENigeria joins FoE Africa Delegation to ECOWAS
Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria joins the Friends of the Earth Africa (FoE Africa) delegation on Saturday 18th June 2022 to seek the intervention of the ECOWAS Parliament in the exploitative activities and human rights violations by industrial plantation companies whose operations in the region are causing untold impacts on indigenous peoples and […]
FG, Compel Oil Firms To Restore Nigeria’s Environment – ERA/FoEN
ERA/FoEN hosted Representatives and leaders of the Artisan Fishermen Association of Nigeria from the five Niger Delta states, who were victims of the Shell Bonga oil spill at a press conference held in Benin City. They called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to prevail on multi-national oil giants in putting an end […]
Chima Williams, ERA/FoEN Executive Director, and Six others Win Goldman Environmental Prize
Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) Executive Director, Barrister Chima Williams, has been named among the seven winners of this year’s prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize. A statement released by the Goldman Environmental Foundation listed other winners to include Niwat Roykaew from Thailand; Marjan Minnessma, the Netherlands; Juliet Vincent, Australia; Nalleli Cobo, United States […]