Report from Essential Action and Global Exchange

Oil For Nothing: Multinational Corporations, Environmental Destruction, Death and Impunity in the Niger Delta

Released: January 25, 2000

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Key Findings
Executive Summary
Background
Section One: Threats to the livelihood of communities by the operations of multinational oil corporations in the oil-producing areas of the Niger Delta
Section Two: Social and economic impacts of corporate practices on the communities of the oil-producing areas
Section Three: Oil companies' responses to local communities' protests
Section Four: Existing constraints on grassroots activism and the flow of information
Conclusion
Recommendations
Footnotes
Acknowledgments

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