Nigerian Farmers Take Shell Oil Pollution Case to Dutch Court
Twelve years later, four farmers - two have since died - are demanding that oil giant Shell compensate them for catastrophic oil spills that ruined three fishing villages on the banks of the Niger Delta, causing disease and preventing them from fishing. They also want the spills to be cleaned up. In a case that has lasted more than a decade, Shell, an Anglo-Dutch company, tried to prevent the case from being heard in the Netherlands, but in 2015, judges ruled that the case should go ahead. Shell has repeatedly said that the spills were from oil bunkering, or sabotage, and maintains it has cleaned up areas where pollution did happen.
-
Nigeria:
Farmers Take Their Shell Oil Pollution Case to Dutch Court
RFI, 8 October 2020
In a long-standing case that has taken 12 years to go to court, lawyers for four Nigerian farmers accused the multinational oil company Shell of polluting the Niger Delta on… Read more »
-
Nigeria:
Oil Firms Spill 3,346 Barrels of Crude Oil in Eight Months - Investigation
Vanguard, 29 September 2020
Oil and gas companies operating in Niger Delta spilled 3,346.94 barrels of crude oil, an equivalent of 532,078 litres, in eight months, from January to August 2020, according to… Read more »
-
Nigeria:
Delta Community Residents Cry Out Over Water Pollution
Vanguard, 15 September 2020
A spillage suspected to be as a result of a broken pipeline allegedly belonging to an oil coy, Seplat Petroleum Development Company, have sparked environmental problems for… Read more »
-
Nigeria:
10 Years Later, Ogoniland Remains Heavily Contaminated - Report
Premium Times, 18 June 2020
Nearly 10 years after a clean-up was urged for areas polluted by Shell and other oil companies in the Niger Delta, work has begun on only 11 per cent of planned sites while vast… Read more »
-
Nigeria:
Shell 'Still Failing' to Clean Up Pollution in Niger Delta
AI London, 17 June 2020
Nearly ten years after the UN called for a major clean-up of areas of the Niger Delta polluted by the oil giant Shell and other oil companies, decontamination work has begun on… Read more »
-
InFocus
-
The Federal High Court in Lagos has dismissed a suit by Shell challenging the imposition of a U.S.$3.6 billion fine on it by the government. The oil giant had sued the National Oil ... Read more »
-
A British judge has ruled that Nigeria's Bodo community, which has been involved in a protracted legal battle with Shell over the clean-up of two 2008 oil spills, should retain the ... Read more »
Oil pollution in the Niger Delta.
