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Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to pay $111.6-million to communities in southern Nigeria over a crude oil spill that occurred in 1970, according to The Guardian. This decision is one of the latest involving Nigeria’s oil-producing south, where communities have long fought battles over the environmental degradation and damages caused by oil spills […]
Oil giant Shell has agreed to pay around 95m euros to communities in southern Nigeria over crude spills in 1970, the company and the community's lawyer said.