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About one year after a judgment by a Dutch Appeal Court in the Hague, Netherlands ordered Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to pay compensation to four Niger Delta farmers for devastating their farmlands, the oil company has opened a mediation process to resolve the lingering dispute.

The energy giant has agreed to compensate communities in the oil-producing Ogoniland part of Nigeria for the pollution. Shell still denies responsibility but the people who took the company to court feel vindicated.

Oil spills: Niger Delta communities ‘get’ over N836bn in 7 years In the last seven years, various courts have awarded the sum of N836.318bn (N98.318 billion and over $1.8billion) to oil-producing communities in Niger Delta... Women group protesting in front of ExxonMobil office By Sun Jul 11 2021 In the last seven years, various courts have awarded the sum of N836.318bn (N98.318 billion and over $1.8billion) to oil-producing communities in Niger Delta as compensations for oil spills and lan...

Residents of Ogoniland have called on the federal government to expedite action on the provision of clean water following the contamination

Merrit Kennedy Merrit Kennedy is a reporter for NPRs News Desk. She covers a broad range of issues, from the latest developments out of the Middle East to science research news. Kennedy joined NPR in Washington, D.C., in December 2015, after seven years living and working in Egypt. She started her journalism career at the beginning of the Egyptian uprising in 2011 and chronicled the ousting of two presidents, eight rounds of elections, and numerous major outbreaks of violence for NPR and other ...

Oil spill damage in the Niger Delta region, April 6, 2010 (Flickr/Sosialistisk Ungdom) Simon Ayafa has witnessed oil pollution in the Niger Delta region since he was 15. Now, at 35, he feels the region has been made uninhabitable by decades of oil spills. "You to go the stream to fetch water and you get oil," said Ayafa, who is a parishioner at St. Pauls Catholic Church in Bodo, a fishing village that has suffered from massive oil spills. "You go to the farm and the crops are ...

NationofChange “Finally, there is some justice for the Nigerian people suffering the consequences of Shell’s oil.” After a 13-year legal battle, a small group of Nigerian farmers won their pollution case against Shell Oil.  These four farmers, along with Friends of the Earth Netherlands, took Shell to court after the oil giant contaminated their lands with years of oil spills.  #Shell has today been defeated in court by Nigerian farmers. This is a hopeful day for all victim...

Nigerian Villagers Score ‘Victory for Humanity’ When a Court Verdict Slams Shell Oil For Liability After Years of Spills Feb 10, 2021 Four Nigerian famers have won a 13-year legal battle against Shell Oil after a spill allegedly contaminated their lands. The David vs Goliath story went all the way from the rural Niger Delta to The Hague Court of Appeal, resulting in the farmers being compensated, with further mandates for both safety and cleanup being pressed upon parent company Royal...

The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending January 29th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US fell by 192 billion cubic feet to 2,689 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 41 billion cubic feet, or 1.5% higher than the 2,648 billion cubic feet that were in storage on January 29th of last year, and 198 billion cubic feet, or 7.9% above the five-year average of 2,491 billion cubic feet of natural gas th...

Oil Change International C: Milieudefensie It is now twenty six years since the Nigerian activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni were murdered by the Nigerian military for their campaign against the oil giant Shell. Ken and other others had campaigned against Shell’s endemic pollution of Ogoni and the company’s environmental racism and double standards of operations. They campaigned for clean air and water and self-determination. They paid the ultimate price. In his powerful, defiant ...