Pollutions: Court Decides Against Shell in Nigeria as Pipeline Fire Kills Twenty Eight. Drillbits & Tailings -6/30/2000 - vol. 5, no. 11
Court Decides Against Shell in Nigeria as Pipeline Fire Kills Twenty Eight. Drillbits & Tailings -6/30/2000 - vol. 5, no. 11: "A Nigerian court has ordered the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell Cooperation to pay US$40 million in compensation for an oil spill that happened 30 years ago in Ogoniland. The Ejamaa Ebubu community filed the lawsuit nine years ago and on June 24 Shell was ordered to compensate them for the devastated area.
Villagers and witnesses say a thick crust of oil that is now as hard as asphalt has covered the mangrove swamp area where the spill occurred. Shell have not disputed the facts of the case but claimed that it could not be held responsible as it had already left the area of the spill because of the Biafran civil war. Shell also said that it paid compensation for the spill, but Ebubu leaders argued that those who received it were not representatives of the community.
'In that particular place, the oil is five meters (16 feet) deep. It has never been cleaned up. There are hard cakes of crude oil which continue to seep into the underground water. Streams remain polluted,' said Dr. Wiwa."
Villagers and witnesses say a thick crust of oil that is now as hard as asphalt has covered the mangrove swamp area where the spill occurred. Shell have not disputed the facts of the case but claimed that it could not be held responsible as it had already left the area of the spill because of the Biafran civil war. Shell also said that it paid compensation for the spill, but Ebubu leaders argued that those who received it were not representatives of the community.
'In that particular place, the oil is five meters (16 feet) deep. It has never been cleaned up. There are hard cakes of crude oil which continue to seep into the underground water. Streams remain polluted,' said Dr. Wiwa."
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