9/4/2023 0 Comments Cnn typo niger![]() ![]() Williams agrees it is difficult to hold multinational companies accountable through government agencies in Nigeria. Nubari believes oil companies are “untouchable in Nigeria and unaccountable and that is why communities and individuals approach foreign courts to get justice.” When our facilities are tampered with and there’s a spill, we spend money to stop the spill, fix our facility, clean up and remediate the environment,” Odugbesan said. “Throughout our operations globally, in 2021, it’s only in Nigeria that we recorded crude theft. “Over 95 percent of the spill incidents in our operations are caused by sabotage,” Odugbesan, the Shell Nigeria spokesman, told CNN. “The Niger Delta is a graveyard of the living and we will never know how much harm has been done until we audit the entire environment,” Nubari also said.įor many years, Shell has attributed most spills to theft and sabotage by locals. However, Williams says he and his legal team pushed on because they had established that the parent company in the Netherlands had “authority flow,” to the subsidiary – Shell Nigeria – and therefore could not be exempt from its decisions and operations.Ĭhima Williams (center) and colleagues visit an oil-polluted area in Ikebiri Southern Ijaw, an area of the Niger Delta (Photo: George Osodi) George Osodi In 2013, a Dutch lower court ruled that the Shell parent company could not be held responsible for violations committed by its Nigerian division. Shell had argued for the case to be tried in Nigeria while rejecting liability for the spills, which it said were caused by sabotage of its subsidiary’s pipelines. Williams attributed his win to “the grace of God” in a video call with CNN from Lagos, Nigeria. “These seven leaders give us a reason for hope and remind us what can be accomplished in the face of adversity,” the Vice President of the Goldman Environmental Foundation, Jennifer Goldman Wallis, said in a statement. Major new inquiry into oil spills in Nigeria's Niger Delta launched Every year there are hundreds of spills in the Niger delta, but clean-ups are often slow and ineffective. ![]() The company has failed to clean it up, despite repeated attempts to do so. The decision to allow Shell plc, formerly known as Royal Dutch Shell plc, to be sued in this jurisdiction set a precedent as it was the first time the Dutch parent company was sued in its home country for the actions of its foreign subsidiary, SPDC.Ĭontaminated land surrounds the Bomu Manifold, a Shell facility at Kegbara Dere (K.Dere), Rivers State, Nigeria, years after spills occurred. The suit against Shell Nigeria was brought by four farmers from the Goi and Oruma communities in the country’s oil-rich but impoverished Niger Delta region, who said their farms were left in ruins after major spills from underground pipelines. Williams, who is the executive director of the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, successfully convinced the Court of Appeal in the Hague that Shell plc was responsible for the activities of its subsidiary in Nigeria – Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) - and for oil spills that ravaged local farmlands. ![]() When Nigerian environmental lawyer Chima Williams launched a lawsuit against oil giant Shell plc, he did not envisage a 13-year battle that would lead to a landmark ruling and land him a prestigious environmental award. ![]()
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