Shell faces UK supreme court case over Niger delta pollution

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Communities say decades of pollution have contaminated water wells with potentially cancer-causing chemicals

The fossil fuel company Shell must be held accountable for significant and systematic pollution caused by oil extraction in the Niger delta, lawyers will argue in the supreme court.

 

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Peoples of the Niger delta deserve compensation having seen their livelihoods decimated by Shell by destruction of fish stocks and Africa’s largest mangrove forest which sequester four times more carbon than the world’s rainforests.

S-hell brings 'Hell' to Africa and any other areas they exploit. The environment and local people pay the final bill.

They wouldn't be as careless if it was a delta in Britain itself.

didn't their( Niger) government allow it.

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