QUOTE: MEND on the march

"Our candid advice to the oil majors is that they should not waste their time repairing any lines as we will continue to sabotage them. We have time on our side and there is so much to be destroyed." Joseph Gbomo, spokesman for MEND.

As anticipated, MEND has quickly found a new "Joseph Gbomo" and is back in action as a charter member of the shadow OPEC. It's a great demonstration of how quickly open source warfare can bounce back from seemingly fatal blows. NOTE: The combination of a labor strike at Exxon (850,000 barrels a day) and systems disruption aimed at Shell and Chevron (~500,000 barrels a day) has shut down 50% of Nigeria's oil production. The oil markets responded to this loss of production from a major producer and drove prices to nearly $120 a barrel.

Comments

[Diskarapur]

So much for the "power" of the Big Evil Oil Companies... (Aren't these guys supposed to be ruling the world, or something?)