Mostly because over the past week, Exxon has leaked 100,000 barrels of oil (more than BP has, an est 94k) in the Niger Delta and no one has really given a shit.
“If this (the BP spill) were in the Niger Delta, no one would be batting an eyelid,” says Holly Pattenden, African oil analyst at consultants Business Monitor International. “They have these kind of oil spills in Nigeria all the time.”
