-
Nigeria: Oil Spills - Shell Set to Pay $16M Compensation to Niger Delta Farmers
This Day, 24 December 2022
Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) yesterday announced that it would pay €15 million to farmers in three Niger Delta communities as compensation for damages to their… Read more »
-
Nigeria: Shell to Pay U.S.$16 Million to Nigerian Farmers Over Oil Damage
Premium Times, 23 December 2022
A Dutch Court in 2021 ordered the international company to pay the claimants compensation over the oil spills that took place in the villages between 2004 and 2007. Read more »
-
Vanguard, 23 December 2022
Amid environmental degradation suffered by Niger Deltans, environmentalists, Friday, hailed court judgment over Shell's acceptance to pay €15 million compensation for oil… Read more »
-
Nigeria: Dutch Court Rejects Suit of Nigerian Widows Against Shell
allAfrica, 24 March 2022
Four Nigerian widows who brought a case against oil giant Shell for allegedly helping corrupt witnesses testify against their late husbands, have had their case thrown out. Read more »
Shell to Pay Millions to Nigerian Farmers For Oil Damage
Oil giant Shell has agreed to pay U.S.$16 million to four Nigerian farmers and their communities to compensate for damage allegedly caused by pollution caused by leaks in its oil pipelines.
The four farmers who began the case - Barizaa Dooh, Elder Friday Alfred Akpan, Chief Fidelis A Oguru, and Alali Efanga - said the leaks from underground oil pipelines had cost them their livelihoods by contaminating land and waterways.
The oil spills, in this case, happened from 2004 to 2007 and the payout follows a decision last year by a Dutch court that the Nigerian branch of Shell was responsible for the damage. The villages are Goi in Ogoni land, Rivers State; Oruma in Bayelsa State; and Ikot Ada Udo in Akwa Ibom State.
Shell had argued that the leaks were a result of sabotage.
In 2021, a Dutch Appeal court ruled - following 15 years of legal battles - that Shell's Nigerian branch must pay out for a series of leaks and that the parent company must install new pipeline equipment to prevent further devastating spills.
InFocus
-
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
Read more » -
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to pay at least U.S.$111 million to resolve a dispute over an oil spill that occurred in 1970, which affected Ogoni communities in Rivers State. The origin of the community's grievance against Shell dates back to a rupture in one of the firm's pipelines in 1970. The claimants allege their lives and health have suffered because repeated oil spills have contaminated the land, swamps, groundwater, and waterways and that there has been no adequate cleaning
Read more » -
The government is encouraging Royal Dutch Shell Plc to keep its onshore oil and gas business in Nigeria, instead of divesting it, as the company seeks to focus more on cleaner energy and offshore production. The oil giant has been at the receiving end of several law suits brought by inhabitants of oil rich areas, including the Niger Delta, where oil spills has led to loss of livelihoods over the years. Shell has denied
Read more » -
A group of Nigerian widows have lost their case after suing the oil giant Shell for its alleged role in the unlawful arrest, detention, and execution of their husbands for opposing the oil giant and the military government.
On November 10, 1995, nine Nigerian environmental activists accused of murder, were executed by former military ruler Sani Abacha. Their deaths sparked an international outcry
Read more »
