Comparative oil production
Alan Carter wrote from the UK to recommend this article from the Financial Times of London. The theme could become the focus of a comparative study, even for AP classes that examine Nigeria, Mexico, Russia, and Iran -- all major oil producers.Crude realities
By Matthew Green
Published: August 28 2008 03:00
"The world needs Africa's oil, but the stuff has a habit of ruining the places that produce it. From the civil war battlefields of southern Sudan to the slums of Angola and the swamps of the Niger Delta, the discovery of crude has done little to improve local lives. Often, it has destroyed them.
"Yet a fisherman who makes his livelihood in Africa's newest oil province - a deep-water field off Ghana's Atlantic coast - can hardly wait for it to start flowing. 'With God's help, I'll be a rich man,' says Joseph Cudjoe, one of a chain of young men hauling a net into a brightly painted longboat beached at the village of Axim. 'If the oil is coming, we'll get a lot of money, just like the Saudis.'
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008
Labels: China economics politics, environment, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia
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