‘We were eating, drinking, breathing the oil’: the villagers who stood up to big oil – and won

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‘We were eating, drinking, breathing the oil’: the villagers who stood up to big oil – and won
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The fossil fuel industry faces a reckoning in the Niger Delta after disasters made it one of the most polluted places on the planet

The fossil fuel industry faces a reckoning in the Niger Delta after a disaster left families ‘eating, drinking, breathing the oil’Crude oil spill in Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer. Video: Modest Franco/Getty ImagesOn 10 October 2004, Eric Dooh received an urgent call from one of his father’s employees: the waterway surrounding their houses was running black with oil.

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