12 — Wednesday, October 1, 1997 — North Shore News

Protesters picket Shell

Group thanks
North Van City
for support

By Andrew McCredie

Associate Editor
andrew@nsnews.com

A protest at Lonsdale
Avenue and 13th Street
in North Vancouver
Saturday was both a
proactive and reactive
move by the Ogoni
Solidarity Network
(OSN).

The Vancouver-based
group dedicated to raising
awareness about the ongoing
plight of the 500,000 Ogoni
people in Nigeria set up shop
at a Lonsdale Shell station as
part of a rotating protest at
stations throughout the
Lower Mainland.

The group’s visit to the

North Shore, according to.

OSN spokesman Scott Pegg,
was also a way of thanking
North Vancouver city council
for championing the Ogoni

‘ople.

On March 17 of this year,
North Vancouver City council
took the popular credo
“Think global, act local” to
heart as they directed staff not
to buy or have any deal-
ings with Shell Canada or its
parent} company Shell
International.

“We have to take a stand
on corporations, against the
way Shell has raped the Ogoni
people,” Coun. Barbara
Perrault said during discus-
sions in March. The motion
was passed unanimously.

According to the Wall
Street Journal, Shell
International has removed
US$30 billion worth of oil
from the Ogoni region in
Nigeria since 1958. The
Ogoni people still live without
electricity and clean drinking
water.

Greenpeace International
reports that 40% of Shell’s oil
spills occurred in Nigeria
between 1982 and 1992.

In addition, the dictator-
ship that rules Nigeria gets
80% of its annual revenuc
from oil accounts — a stag-

NEWS photos Brad Ledwidge

(Above photo) Passerby Billie Drew (left) talks with Eesmyal Santos-Brauit (centre)
and Kevin Hudson of the Ogoni Solidarity Network, while (left photo, left to right)
Scott Pegg, Hannah Askew, Julie Fieldhouse and Adam Fraser teke their message
te Lonsdale Avenue on Saturday in protest of Shell's ongoing involvement with the
corrupt dictatorship in Nigeria.

gering US$11 million a day.
In January, Shell admitted
that it had imported weapons
for the Nigerian police to pro-

tect oil installations.

And while Pegg can’t say
for sure, he believes North
Vancouver City’s actions

played an integral part in
Vancouver's recent decision to
not renew its fuel contract
with Shell.

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Burglar {
jailed for &
NVhit &

By Anna Marie D'Angeis °

News Reporter
dangelo@nsnews.com

A 25-year-old prison
parolee was jailed for
18 months on Sept. 2
for committing a bur-
glary in North
Vancouver.

Michael Ronald . Arnold
pleaded guilty to the break,
enter and theft of a North
Vancouver business in the
400-block of Mountain
Highway on Aug. 6., :

According to; the
Vancouver RCMP: “4 id,
who is a Vancouver resident,
was on statutory release from
prison at the time of the bur-

“Amold was released from
Matsqui penitentiary two
months before commiting
the crime.

Arnold received a concur-
rent six-month jail sentence
for possessing a stolen car on
the day of the burghary.

North Vancouver provin-
cial court Judge Bili Rodgers
sentenced Arnold to the jail

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