January 10, 2015

Shell finally pays out £55 million compensation over Niger Delta Oil spills

 After a long battle between the Bodo community and Oil giant Shell’s over long-overdue compensation on havoc done on their livelihood by oil spills, the devastated community  finally receives their pay out after court ruled.

 Niger Delta is an important victory for the victims of corporate negligence, said Amnesty International and the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development today. 

Six years after two oil spills destroyed thousands of livelihoods in the Bodo area, legal action in the UK has driven Shell to make an out-of-court settlement of £55m to compensate the affected community. The £55m will be split between £35m for 15,600 individuals and £20m for the community.

“While the pay-out is a long awaited victory for the thousands of people who lost their livelihoods in Bodo, it shouldn’t have taken six years to get anything close to fair compensation,” said Audrey Gaughran, Director of Global Issues at Amnesty International. 


Photo credit: Amnesty international

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