In a mangrove forest at the edge of a Niger Delta swamp, a film of oil shimmers in rainbow colors for hundreds of meters around Royal Dutch Shell’s Nembe creek pipeline. The cause of this latest environmental catastrophe, Shell says, was an unprecedented level of oil theft targeting a pipeline
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