Oil pollution in the Niger Delta: Shell will pay 70 million euros to fishermen and … – Daily Mirror

Oil pollution in the Niger Delta: Shell will pay 70 million euros to fishermen and … – Daily Mirror

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The oil company Shell has a lawsuit to prevent environmental damage in Nigeria and agreed on a settlement. Thousands of fishermen and farmers in polluted by oil Niger Delta get compensation. Shell had downplayed his own responsibility for many years.

The Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell will pay in the dispute over oil spills in Nigeria 55 million pounds (70 million euros) to 15,600 fishermen and farmers from the Niger Delta. £ 35 million will be divided among the individual plaintiffs, 20 million to benefit the entire community, such as Shell announced on Wednesday. This ends a simmering for three years litigation before the trial had begun this year.

Attorneys of the affected farmers and fishermen from the village of Bodo, whose environment is polluted heavily by two oil spills in 2008, known as “deeply disappointing” that the corporation the amount of damage so long not recognized.

For two pipelines occurred after presentation of the plaintiffs a total of 500,000 barrels of oil escaped and polluted the environment

It is the highest out of court settlement which ever negotiated for an oil spill in Nigeria. Royal Dutch Shell had offered the equivalent of 38 million euros, the victim called at least ten times the comparison could shell serve as a template for future cases in Nigeria and other countries. (AP, Reuters)