Villagers hold Nigeria oil plants
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Representatives of a remote community in southern Nigeria's Delta region take over three oil installations.
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Volunteers in the Philippines are getting shorn to save the shore. The cast-off clippings of human hair are going to be used to help mop up oil from a disastrous spill that has fouled beaches, coral reefs and mangrove swamps.
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PORT HARCOURT - Hundreds of unarmed Nigerian villagers, including women and children, seized three oil platforms operated by multinational oil companies yesterday, shutting 90,000 barrels per day of production in a dispute over jobs.
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Three foreigners and four Nigerians were kidnapped Sunday from an oil rig run by Anglo-Dutch giant Shell off southern Nigeria, industry and security sources said.
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Relief workers used dugout canoes, motorboats and a U.N. helicopter to rescue villagers from rising floodwaters Wednesday, but others refused to go because it would mean leaving their crops and livestock.
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Europeâs farmers are beginning to grow crops that can be turned into fuels meant to produce fewer emissions than gas or oil.
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Gunmen have invaded an oilfield control  station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's Bayelsa  state and are holding several soldiers and oil workers hostage,  security and industry sources said on Friday.
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The Nigerian army has sent more troops to drive militants from an oil plant they have occupied since they abducted 27 people there at the weekend, a military officer said Tuesday.
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Nigeria&#39;s Rivers State government has asked hundreds of villagers occupying three oil platforms in a dispute over jobs to vacate them within three days, a government spokesman said yesterday.
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OTAHEITE, Trinidad _ When Ramos Ramdeo gazes at the water off this southern fishing village, he sees more than the crystal blue color, choppy waves and one of the world's richest shrimp spawning grounds. He sees his livelihood.
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Royal Dutch/Shell has shut in another 30,000 barrels per day of oil output in Nigeria due to a protest by villagers over jobs, bringing its total cut to 100,000 bpd, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
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People in the Cornish village of Boscastle are trying to protect their properties from flooding.
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The tiny village of Jucu in  northwestern Romania, which will host a new factory making  Nokia mobile phones, currently earns its livelihood from  farming vegetables such as peppers, tomatoes and eggplants.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - About 20 Nigerians working for a contractor to Royal Dutch Shell were abducted during a Monday attack on a convoy of boats supplying oilfields, Shell sources said on Tuesday.
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Nigeria oil militants take control of an oil installation operated by Shell in the oil-rich southern Nigeria.
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Two Filipino oil workers were kidnapped near the Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt in the southern Niger Delta, officials said.
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Nigerian villagers have ended their three-day occupation of three oil installations in the Niger Delta. Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell said the protestors on its two plants had departed to nearby village Freetown, on Tuesday.