Nigerian pipeline explosion kills 200

LAGOS, Nigeria - At least 200 people were killed Tuesday when a pipeline carrying petroleum products exploded in Nigeria's biggest city of Lagos, a Red Cross official said. The death toll was expected to rise.

Ige Oladimeji, a senior official for the Nigerian Red Cross, said his workers had documented "over 200 and still counting."

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061226/ap_on_re_af/nigeria_pipeline_explosion

More than 500 killed in Nigerian pipeline blast

Lagos,Reuters:


More than 500 bodies, most burned beyond recognition, were lying at the scene of a fuel pipeline explosion in Nigeria's largest city, Lagos, a Reuters witness said on Tuesday.

Hundreds of people went to scoop fuel from the pipeline after thieves punctured it overnight at Abule Egba, a heavily populated area, said Red Cross Secretary General Abiodun Orebiyi.

Reuters photographer Akintunde Akinleye said he counted more than 500 bodies, possibly up to 700, burned beyond recognition.

more: http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/dec262006/update18182420061226.asp

the real story is the abject poverty that forces poor people to endanger their lives trying to 'scoop up' the residiual waste from the process that drives our hummers and so on, our 20 carat lifestyle....

that any country with the natural resources and riches that Nigeria has, that any of their people should live in poverty.

Why doesn't our lord and savior Bush bring democracy to Nigeria? I guess the oil barons are afraid Nigeria would become another Venezuela.

This happens every once in a while there - people trying to steal fuel.

moron* used that as an excuse as a reason for a hike in the price of gas at the pump. Hmmm, I don't see any hike or announcement of a hike, what has changed? :shrug:

Boiling the frog.

http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoStory.aspx?isSummitStory=false&storyId=caada24357fa020cf77e77ef30dbec6e085a4f38&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-L3-Top+NewsNews-6


So much for the theory of wealth trickling down to the poor:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/26/1518254

On edit:

Not to make fun of the situation but I couldn't resist

These women came together in 2002 and decided that they had had enough, and they would paddle wooden canoes up to huge oil platforms and climb on them and actually threaten to take their shirts off, which in Africa is a very big threat, and actually scared -- the oil workers said, “Well, we’ve been trained for every possible security threat, but we were never trained for hundreds of women to come in here and threaten to take their shirts off.” And it was very effective. And for the first time, something called an MOU was signed, which is a memorandum of understanding.

:rofl:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6209845.stm
"The blast in the Abule Egba area happened as hundreds of people were scooping fuel from a pipeline punctured by thieves, officials said."
picture link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6210327.stm

...oh wait it probably wont. :eyes:

is a country that cheney wants to buy gas from, chill it to -260 degrees (making it Liquefied Natural Gas "LNG"), then ship it to terminals in the U.S.

Prior to the 2005 Energy bill, California denied all terminals. Now they are trying to put these terminals in five places in Oregon. My community is one of them.

Great idea, eh?

North America has used up most of it's natural gas reserves and we will have to start importing it in large amounts over the next few years. Most homes in the US are heated by it, and 20% of our electricity is generated by it. Unless we invest heavily in alternative energy sources and near-draconian energy conservation methods, we will be in a serious crisis by the end of the decade.