Nukes and Oil: Oil Companies in Nigeria, the Stop Exxon Campaign & the Anniversary of TMI
This week the President of Nigeria is in the U.S. meeting with George Bush. Nigeria is the world's eighth-largest producer of crude oil and the fifth largest supplier of oil to the United States. Earthbeat co-host Daphne Wysham interviews Asume Osouka, a campaigner for the Environmental Rights Action in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, about the impact oil companies are having on his country.
Joining Daphne in the studio live and taking calls are two activists highlighting Exxon Mobil's back-door political actions. Kert Davies of Greenpeace USA discusses how Exxon was behind an IRS audit of the environmental group. Exxpose Exxon's Shawnee Hoover brought along a copy of a new Internet comic about Exxon's thirst for oil.
Finally, Tuesday, March 28 is the 27th anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster. Daphne speaks to Paul Gunter, the director of the reactor watchdog project for the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, and Harvey Wasserman, the author of the book: Solartopia! Our Green-powered Earth.
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