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  A lot of the pollution also comes from the gangs poor attempts at refining oil. They produce some gasoline, but a large portion of the mix is wasted and dumped on the beach/river landings. The pollution then kills off the fishing industry, resulting in more individuals stealing oil to make ends meat
  Should Shell be safeguarding their pipelines? Certainly. Are they responsible for thieves just dumping waste? Idk.
context: I want these countries to go to war with the gas companies. But I don't want our military to intervene.
  I'm sick of paying to protect other civilians companies so they can exploit us all here and fuck everyone abroad as well. >
  
  Right? I can not fathom how a company destroying your ecosystem and filling your water source with nasty pollutants doesn’t call for some kind of immediate stop. Divers sent out to destroy a critical piece of infrastructure and prevent further damage to their home, or something. It needs to stop. >
  
  The people who do that would be labeled eco-terrorists and their own governments, which are receiving handsome profits from these companies, would be the one's trying to stomp them out.
  Just look at what happens in the US when you try to protect clean water >
  
  Reminds me of the BP spill.
  Theyll pay fines with the 300% profit from the last year and it'll happen again.
  Sad shit . >
  
  The maximum penalty allowed according to Wikipedia. Ridiculous. >
  
  Shell just announced their highest profits in 115 years: almost $40 billion. >
  
  All the oil companies have reported their highest profits.  Those record gas prices' money has to go somewhere. >
  
  Greed, lies and excuses. >
  
  
  The company says it bears no responsibility for the clandestine siphoning off of oil from its pipelines by organized gangs, which it says causes many of the spills.
  
  I'm pretty interested to see how this plays out legally. It's still Shell's infrastructure and they supposedly have a duty to safeguard against this clandestine siphoning and other interference that could cause spills. Or will it be decided that Shell has no such duty to ensure that its assets remain secure so as to not destroy surrounding communities.