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01/02/2006:

"Blood Flows With Oil in Poor Nigerian Villages"

OBIOKU, Nigeria - At first glance, it is hard to imagine anyone fighting over this place.

Approached by a creek, the only way to get here, a day's journey by dugout canoe from the nearest town, it presents itself as a collection of battered shacks teetering on a steadily eroding beach.

On Sunday morning, the village children shimmy out of their best clothes after church and head to a muddy puddle to collect water. Their mothers use the murky liquid to cook whatever soup they can muster from the meager catch of the day.

Yet for months a pitched battle has been fought between communities that claim authority over this village and the right to control what lies beneath its watery ground: a potentially vast field of crude oil that has caught the attention of a major energy company.

The conflict has left dozens dead and wounded, sent hundreds fleeing their homes and roiled this once quiet part of the Niger Delta. It has also laid bare the desperate struggle of impoverished communities to reap crumbs from the lavish banquet the oil boom has laid in this oil-rich yet grindingly poor corner of the globe.
nytimes.com

Democracy Now: Catalogue of Chevron Crimes in Nigeria

Chevron's Angola project recognized
The Offshore Energy Association has named Chevron Corp.'s Benguela Belize drilling and production platform in Angola as "Project of the Year," the company said Friday.

The Benguela Belize-Lobito Tomboco (BBLT) project is one of the San Ramon oil company's "Big 5" major capital projects and is scheduled to begin production in the first quarter of 2006. The project is expected to have a production capacity of 220,000 barrels per day.

The Benguela Belize structure, a tower with topsides weighing more than 40,000 tons, is situated in 1,300 feet of water and is one of the largest structures in the world.

Cabinda Angola:The Holocaust of a Nation Sponsored by a company Chevron Oil
- Boycott Chevron Oil Stations
- Embargo to the Marxist Regime of Angola.
- Write to your Congressman, Senator, MP, MEP, MSP, MLA.
- End to the Occupation of Cabinda by the MPLA Army.
- End to the theft of the Cabindan oil by Chevron Co.
(Chevron Organized Crime)
- Payment of all oil stolen so far by Chevron oil co $260 Billion USD.
- End to the Murder in Cabinda.
- End to the Rape of women in Cabinda.
- End of the Mercenaries in the payroll of Chevron oil co, in Cabinda.
- End of the Holocaust of the people of Cabinda.
- End to the greed of Chevron oil co. (MF, SB)
- End to the atrocities of the MPLA sponsored by Chevron oil co.
- Please help us. Tell a friend, call your congressman do some thing, they are killing us. (Chevron and the marxist MPLA)

Chevron congratulates itself on its good works