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Nigeria: Shell Pays N15.4 Billion to Niger Delta Communities for Oil Spills
Daily Trust, 7 January 2015
Shell Oil Company has paid the sum of £55m (N15.4bn) as compensation to communities devastated by oil spills in the Niger Delta region of the country. Read more »
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Nigeria: Shell's N15 Billion Settlement to Ogoni Community "Inadequate"
Premium Times, 7 January 2015
Oil giant Shell's agreement to pay £55 million (about N16 billion) to 15,600 fishermen in Bodo community in Ogoniland is not commensurate with the disaster it had visited on… Read more »
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Nigeria: Oil Spill - Shell to Pay N15.3 Billion Compensation to Bodo Community
Premium Times, 7 January 2015
Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) said on Wednesday it has agreed to pay a £55 million (about N15.3billion) compensation to the Bodo community… Read more »
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Nigeria: Ogoni Residents Hope Shell Oil Spill Settlement Sets Precedent
DW, 7 January 2015
Residents in Ogoniland have welcomed a settlement in which oil giant Shell will pay double digit million pound compensation for land ruined by two oil spills in 2008. They hope… Read more »
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Nigeria: Oil Firm Pays Out Over Delta Oil Spills
DW, 7 January 2015
Shell oil has struck a deal for two separate payouts, one to fishermen and a second to their community, after two oil spills in 2008 devastated their livelihoods. It could take… Read more »
Oil Giant Agrees To Nigeria Oil Spill Settlement
Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to a settlement with residents of the affected community, after two oil spills in 2008 devastated their livelihoods.
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Shell has been criticised in the past for not doing enough to clean up spills and maintain infrastructure. Read more »
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Amnesty International has in court documents said that the oil giant repeatedly made false claims about the size and impact of two major oil spills at Bodo in the Niger Delta. ... Read more »
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Oil giants, Shell and ExxonMobil, have begun to clean up oil spills around their operations in the nation's oil rich Niger Delta. Read more »
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Amnesty International and other groups in the Niger Delta have disclosed that little action had been taken by the government and oil giant Shell, to clean up pollution caused by ... Read more »
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Oil giant, Royal Dutch Shell is ready to pay up to U.S.$51 million in compensation for two oil spills in Bodo, Nigeria in 2008, but the lawyer representing the claimants has ... Read more »
