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Amnesty International: Shell should pay for Nigeria oil spills
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Amnesty International has called on Shell to pay US$1 billion to start cleaning up two oil spills in Nigeria’s Niger Delta which it says caused huge suffering to locals whose fisheries and farmland were poisoned.
A spokesman for Shell said on Thursday the company had already acknowledged the two oil spills and started cleaning up, adding that oil theft was responsible for most spills in the Delta.
The report by the human rights group to mark the 16th anniversary of the execution of environmental activist Ken Saro
Wiwa by Nigerian authorities said the two spills in 2008 in Bodo, Ogoniland, had wrecked the livelihoods of 69,000 people.
