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Environmental Rights Action (ERA)/Friends of the Earth Nigeria has released a report, co-drafted by the Climate Justice Program, calling for an end to gas flaring in Nigeria. Several communities across the Niger Delta, where gas flaring is common, have also filed a law suit against the Nigerian government, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, and several multinational oil companies (Shell, Exxon, Chevron, Total, and Agip) in an attempt to stop this practice. Multinationals account for 95% of Nigeria’s oil production

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