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Mark Dummett

@markdummett.bsky.social
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Head of the business and human rights team @amnesty - ex HRW, BBC & Reuters. All posts my own.

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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Pollution caused by decades of unregulated oil and gas production in Nigeria has caused one of the world's great environmental and human rights scandals. Having read the headlines about this over the years many people assume they already know all about it - that's there's nothing new to say.
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
With oil and gas prices shooting up due to Trump's illegal war in the Gulf, let's not forget the other victims of the fossil fuel industry. (thread)
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Proud that @amnesty.org is supporting this
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Intriguing email sent by David Stern, an aide to the ex Prince Andrew (referred to as PA), to Epstein. Fergie (F) apparently hoped to make $6m from a trade in Nigerian oil. Yes it looked "fishy"
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Almost as pathetic as the FT lunch with Blinken. Biden’s foreign policy was a mess that left millions of people worse off. Complacent and arrogant. Doesn’t even mention Afghanistan.
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Tesla has some good people working on sustainability and human rights. Who would want listen to them again after their boss operated like this?
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Not great for the Tesla brand. Also, compete BS.
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
👏👏 Private Eye
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Here's another sick read. BCG's "Code of Conduct", and a message from its CEO Christoph Schweizer. Or maybe these values don't apply anymore? media-publications.bcg.com/BCG-Code-of-...
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
The FT's reporting on BCG's involvement in plans for post-war Gaza, including the mass displacement of Gaza's is mind-blowing. www.ft.com/content/d35d...
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Esther Kiobel has issued the following statement in response to news that Nigeria’s president has pardoned her late husband and 8 other men, including writer Ken Saro-Wiwa. They were hanged in 1995 after being falsely accused of murder.
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
David Lammy says Shell and the FCDO have a “strong shared endeavour”. This is ridiculous. Is Britain’s foreign policy now going to be set by Big Oil?
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I like Lammy, but wtf?
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Good news: FT reporting that Denmark is pushing back on French and German moves to scrap the EU’s proposed rules on supply chains. on.ft.com/45smjql Copenhagen hits back as Berlin and Paris push to scrap rules on green supply chains
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
But experts estimate that only 7% of the oil has been removed from the ground and say significant contamination remains, posing a serious public health risk to the community. This is now seeking a new clean-up - which could cost up to half a billion pounds.
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
These ruptured under the water of Bodo's creek. The damage destroyed the creek's mangroves and fishing grounds. In 2014, Shell - which earlier this year sold its onshore business in the Niger Delta - admitted liability for the spills and agreed to a clean-up operation as part of a £55m settlement.
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
On both occasions the spills ran for about two months before the company sent contractors to stop them and contain the pollution. Both spills were caused by corrosion to the Trans Niger Pipeline, which carries crude from oil fields scattered across the Niger Delta to the coast.
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
An important environmental justice case underway in London today. At the Royal Courts of Justice, Laz Tamana of the Bodo community explained why the community is taking Shell to court over what they allege has been its failure to clean up two massive spills in 2008.
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Then there’s this Rwandan tea, sold by a UK company that’s branded as “Virunga”. That’s in the DRC, which is a country that Rwanda has invaded.
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
An interesting man, Henri Deterding, who headed Royal Dutch Shell from 1900-1936, and helped turn it into one of the world's biggest companies. His memoirs, "An International Oilman" (1934) starts with a gushing portrait of Mussolini and ends with this...
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Thanks to @lselaw.bsky.social & the Grantham Institute for organising yesterday's panel discussion on the case brought by Nigerian communities affected by oil pollution against Shell here in London. @amnesty.org has stood with these communities for the past decade and we will continue to do so
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This community tap in Ogale is connected to a 150m deep borehole. The water stinks of benzene and is staining the white tiles. Imagine having to drink this.
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Shell refuses to clean up pollution from King Bebe Okpabi’s home town in Nigeria. As a result people have to drink poisoned water. That’s why they’re suing the company in London.
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
King Bennett Okpabi of Ogale in Nigeria on the importance of today’s case against Shell
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Last month I was in Ogale, and came across these taps, providing borehole water to the community. You can see how dirty the water is by the stains on the tiles, and the water stank of benzene. This is the impact of spills and woeful clean up - over many decades
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
and if you want to know more about what has happened in the 40 years since the disaster, and how the US company Dow is still failing to meet its human rights responsibilities - see our report www.amnesty.org/en/documents....
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
if you're attending the UN Forum on BHR in Geneva next week please make time for this panel discussing the legacy of the Bhopal disaster, 40 years ago
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Market in Yenagoa, Nigeria
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Amnesty's new human rights ranking of the EV industry is out #recharge4rights t.co/CskJuTZPOG
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Mark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Amnesty International's position: we need to phase out fossil fuels *and* ensure that human rights are at the centre of a just energy transition www.amnesty.org/en/wp-conten...
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