//&#;&#;Shell faces a bill of hundreds of millions of dollars after accepting full liability for two massive oil spills that devastated a Nigerian community of , people and may take at least years ...

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//&#;&#;Royal Dutch Shell Plc faces the latest ruling in a long-running legal dispute with Nigerian farmers who say the energy giant is responsible for oil leaks that have polluted their villages.

Shell loses Dutch case over Nigeria oil spills. ... while indigenous companies produce most of the countrys onshore oil. Shell faces another Dutch legal suit backed by Milieudefensie demanding ...

The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd (SPDC) produces oil and gas through its SPDC Joint Venture (SPDC-operated, with Shell interest %). It operates a network of wells and pipelines across the Niger Delta, a region of forest, farmland, rivers and marshes the home to around million people.. For decades, the region has been beset by crude oil theft, sabotage of ...

//&#;&#;Court finds Shell liable for Nigerian oil spills. A DUTCH appeals court has ruled that Shell is responsible for the consequences of oil spills in two Nigerian villages from its subsidiary Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC). A decision regarding oil

//&#;&#;Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to pay around m (&#;m/$m) to communities in southern Nigeria over crude oil spills in , lawyers involved in the case have said. The order for the payment of [$m] to the claimants is for full and final satisfaction of the judgement, a local spokesman for Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria said on Wednesday.

//&#;&#;On June, fossil fuel company Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) faced the UK Supreme Court over claims that they have contributed to significant environmental problems in Nigerian communities. Oil extraction has caused decades of pollution," including contamination of water wells with carcinogenic chemicals and damage to vegetation which has "destroyed the livelihoods of fishing and farming ...

//&#;&#;Shell Loses Dutch Court Case Over Nigeria Oil Spills. (Bloomberg) -- A Dutch court has ordered Royal Dutch Shell Plcs Nigerian unit to compensate for oil spills in

//&#;&#;In a potentially ground-breaking development, The Guardian reported today that Shell has accepted liability for two massive oil spills which devastated farmland in Bodo, Ogoniland in . Shell faces a bill of hundreds of millions of dollars after accepting full liability for two massive oil spills that devastated a Nigerian community of , people and may take at least years to clean up.

//&#;&#;The company claims it has done its best to clean up the area, but that there have since been other spills, caused by thieves attempting to siphon oil from the pipeline. In its report, Bad Information: Oil Spill Investigations in the Niger Delta , Amnesty International exposed much of Shells claims on oil pollution in the region as deeply suspect and often untrue.

//&#;&#;CNBC Oil giant Shell is being sued again by two Nigerian communities over multiple spills in the oil rich Niger Delta with claims that could run into tens of millions of pounds given the impact on these communities according to the law firm representing the claimants.. The Bille and Ogale communities, whose livelihoods are mainly based around fishing and farming, are pushing for ...

//&#;&#;Oil giant Shell is being sued again by two Nigerian communities over spills in the Niger Delta with claims that could ... Shell faces further suit over Nigeria oil spills. Read full article. ...

//&#;&#;Shell Nigeria is the largest oil and gas company in Nigeria, Africas top energy producer, with an output of more than million barrels of oil or equivalent per day.

//&#;&#;A Dutch appeals court on Friday held Royal Dutch Shells Nigerian subsidiary responsible for multiple oil pipeline leaks in the Niger Delta and ordered it to pay unspecified damages to farmers ...

//&#;&#;Shell faces further suit over Nigeria oil spills. Oil giant Shell is being sued again by two Nigerian communities over multiple spills in the oil-rich Niger Delta with claims that could run into ...

//&#;&#;Shell faces the latest ruling in a long-running legal dispute with farmers in Nigeria who say the energy giant is responsible for oil leaks that have polluted their villages. By Bloomberg / ...

//&#;&#;Oil giant Shell faces a bill of hundreds of millions of dollars after accepting full liability for two massive oil spills that devastated a Nigerian community of , people and may take at ...

//&#;&#;March , : PM EST. O il and petroleum giant Shell is facing lawsuits for the second time in five years over oil spills in Nigeria, as two communities from the West African country sought ...

//&#;&#;Shell faces damages over Nigeria oil spill. ... The pollution is a result of oil spills in , ... The suit targets Shells parent company in the Netherlands and its Nigerian subsidiary, ...

//&#;&#;Shell Is Back in Court for Nigeria Oil Spills Liability Ruling. (Bloomberg) -- Royal Dutch Shell Plc faces the latest ruling in a long-running legal dispute with Nigerian farmers who say the energy giant is responsible for oil leaks that have polluted their villages.

//&#;&#;Royal Dutch Shell, the oil corporation responsible for two massive oil spills that devastated a small Nigerian community more than six years ago, has agreed to an unprecedented $ million settlement with residents of the Bodo fishing villagean amount locals fear still won't go far enough to repair the ecological and economic damage wrought by leaking pipelines and pollution.

//&#;&#;A Dutch court has ordered a Shell subsidiary in Nigeria to compensate for oil spills in two villages over years ago. Shell Nigeria is liable for damages from pipeline leaks in the villages of ...

//&#;&#;Shell faces possible Dutch lawsuit over Nigerian activist's execution. LONDON (Reuters) - The widow of a Nigerian activist is planning to sue Royal Dutch Shell in

//&#;&#;Crude oil pollutes the waters of an estuary in this aerial photograph taken over B-Dere, Ogoni, Nigeria, on Saturday, Feb. , . Nigerians from the delta are now asking British judges to allow them to sue Royal Dutch Shell Plc in London over the environmental damage caused by oil spills.

//&#;&#;Shell Oil faces a lawsuit in the UK over oil spills in Nigeria. Living on Earth. March ... Now a new suit has been filed against the Dutch company Shell Oil over its environmental record in the ...

//&#;&#;Shell faces payouts in Nigerian oil spill ... hectares of mangroves have been destroyed by the spills and a further , hectares have ... go-ahead to sue Shell in UK court over oil spills.