Earlier this year, an appeals court in the Hague ordered the Nigerian subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell to pay $111 million in compensation to Nigerian farmers for the pollution caused to the Niger Delta by an oil spill in 1970.
The court delivered its judgment at the end of a 30-year civil case brought by farmers in Ogoniland’s Ejama-Ebubu community. The farmers were seeking financial compensation and a clean-up by Shell Nigeria for pollution caused by leaking oil pipelines.
In a second case, Shell was ordered to pay damages for pipeline leaks in the villages of Oruma and Goi.
