It is estimated that 1000 people a year die as a result of the violence in Nigeria's brackish swamps... [But we] only seem interested when British oil workers...go missing or when the interests of huge companies are threatened. Shell, Chevron, Mobil [part of ExxonMobil], Texaco [part of Chevron], Total and Elf [part of Total] are among the multinationals which make billions by extracting 2.3 million barrels of crude every day from Nigeria... No-one much cares about the delta people's struggle for control of their natural resources, their anger at the poisoning of their rivers and the acid rain caused by the wasteful gas flares which light up their skyline each night.