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Shell to negotiate with Nigerians over oil spill compensation
2013-09-06 01:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Compensation talks will begin in Nigeria on Monday between lawyers for Royal Dutch Shell and for 15,000 Nigerian villagers who say their livelihoods were destroyed by oil spills from pipelines operated by the company. The Nigerians launched a suit against Shell at the High Court in London in March 2012, seeking millions of dollars in compensation for two oil spills in 2008 that polluted the waterways of the Bodo fishing communities in the Niger Delta. The legal action is being closely watched...
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