1.   Gas flares and raging fires in open pits foul the air.

2.   Migrant workers toil all night by gas flares to build new budget hotels.

3.   Surrounded by towering oil company gas flares that lit the sky, the city itself, lacking electricity, sank into darkness.

4.   That is little consolation to Dean Pendergast, a federal agriculture analyst whose bedroom faces the gas flares.

5.   Shell has said the Nigerian Liquefied National Gas project would help the environment in the oil-rich south because it will tap dangerous and polluting gas flares.

6.   The gas flares pose a health hazard to inhabitants of oil-producing areas.

7.   The orange glare of their gas flares is just visible on the horizon.