Rob Perks: Appalachia’s Own ‘Resource Curse’?
Pollution and poverty caused by the development of oil reserves have deprived tens of million of Nigerians their basic human rights, according to Amnesty International , which calls oil a “resource curse” for the region. “People living in the Niger Delta have to drink, cook with, and wash in polluted water; they eat fish contaminated with oil and other toxins — if they are lucky enough to still be able to find fish,” Amnesty says in its new report . Replace “oil development in Nigeria” wi













