The most crushing part of exporting these trade goods is the incentive. Nigeria is one of our primary sources for fossil fuels and it will continue to be unless humanitarians do win the battle. Nigeria's citizen's "claim that their lands are being snatched from them forcefully without compensation and their source of livlihood(fishing) is been destroyed by recurrent oil spillage...more than 90% of the natural gas extracted in the oil wells are causing more environmental damage." Times Magazine reports two groups that have been supportive and active to ban the oil trade from the Niger Delta is the Movement for the Emaciation of the Niger Delta (MEND) and Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF). "The damage crude oil has done in the Niger Delta is enormous while the local indigenous people there have seen little if any improvement in their standard of living and still suffer the damage to their natural environmental and source of livlihood."This global conflict has proved to be continuous and will continue to be until the Nigerian environment is completely deprived of oil from the selfishness of its opposing governments.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/190564.stm
http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2010/08/23/niger-delta-oil-spill
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