Niger Delta Communities Drag Shell To Court In UK For ‘Decades Of Oil Spills’ In Nigeria

Emere Godwin Bebe Okpabi, leader of Nigeria’s Ogale people, unpacked four bottles of water from his homeland and lined them up on a table to show why his subjects are suing Royal Dutch Shell in a London court. The Nigerian water is contaminated with oil and cancer-causing compounds such as benzene. It is what his […]

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Cash Can’t Fix the Nigeria Village Ruined by Shell’s Oil by Chris Kay

As canoes glide past mangroves blackened by oil in the Niger River delta, two dozen children splash around in a creek covered by a sheen of crude while families take shelter from the punishing midday sun in half-built houses. Once a bustling farming and fishing town in the region of Ogoniland, Bodo has become a […]

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