Listen to a broadcast by National Public Radio on the impacts of gas flaring in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. Oronto Douglas, of Greengrants’ grantee Community Defence Law Foundation in Nigeria, speaks to the “monumental waste” of natural resources involved in gas flaring.
Greengrants has funded grassroots groups working to stop gas flaring—a practice that is responsible for horrific health and environmental problems—in this region for years. Our grantees are part of an ongoing legal case to get Shell Oil to stop gas flaring. To find out more about how oil and gas development ruins lives and livelihoods in Nigeria and what grassroots activists are doing about it, click here.