Nigerian Communities Tired of Waiting for Oil Compensation
Angry residents of coastal communities in the Niger Delta have protested against Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited for U.S.$16 billion compensation allegedly owed to them for oil spills.
A hand covered in oily mud (file photo).
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Nigeria:
1998 Mobil Spill - Impacted Communities Protest Over Alleged Diversion of U.S.$16 Billion Compensation
Vanguard, 11 March 2015
Yenagoa--Indigenes of oil producing communities from the six states of the Niger Delta yesterday disrupted vehicular movements along the East-West Road axis of Bayelsa State in… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Group Criticizes Shell On Poor Oil Spill Response in Bayelsa
Independent (Lagos), 10 March 2015
Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria, ERA/FoEN, has criticized Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, for its poor response to the oil leak within its oil… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Communities Protest Alleged Diversion of U.S.$16 Billion Compensation for Oil Spill
This Day, 10 March 2015
Following an allegation of diversion of $16 billion paid as compensation by American multinational oil company, Exxon Mobil, for a 1998 oil spill, hundreds of youths from oil… Read more »
InFocus
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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 »