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Niger delta oil spill victims reject 'derisory' Shell compensation offer

2013-09-13 17:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Niger delta communities devastated by giant oil spills from rusting Shell pipelines have unanimously rejected a compensation offer from the company, calling it an insult, and cruel and derisory. A court in London is now likely to decide how much the Anglo-Dutch firm should pay 11,000 fishermen and others from the Bodo community who lost their livelihoods when the 50-year-old Shell-operated trans-Niger pipeline burst twice within a few months in 2008. Sources close to the negotiations in Port...

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