12:44 : Shell Will Take Cue From Nigeria On UN Report -
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) "hopes to hear soon" from Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on how recommendations from a United Nations report into long-standing pollution in the Niger Delta ...
16:53 : Shell Nigeria oil spill '60 times bigger than it claimed' -
As the company faces a lawsuit by residents, an assessment by a US oil spill consultancy casts doubt on Shell's estimate of the Nigerian leakA Shell oil spill on the Niger delta was at least 60 times greater ...
08:29 : Eni Confirms Pipeline Attack In Nigeria Clough Creek Area -
ROME -(Dow Jones)- Italian energy giant Eni SpA (E) Friday said a pipeline has been attacked in the Clough Creek area of Nigeria's Delta region. The attack was claimed by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, ...
21:54 : Nigeria charges ex-governor in oil area with fraud -
ABUJA, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Nigerian authorities charged the powerful ex-governor of a state in the oil producing Niger Delta with fraud and money laundering on Friday, a move likely to further embitter a feud between ...
10:50 : Niger Delta villagers go to the Hague to fight against oil gant Shell -
This once self-sufficient has suffered from the excesses of the oil firms and corrupt officials. Now, the villagers are blamed for everything and the arms dealers are having a field dayGoi is now a dead village. The two fish ponds, bakery and ...
14:20 : Niger delta oil spills clean-up will take 30 years, says UN -
A succession of oil spills by Shell and other companies over half a century will cost $1bn to clean up, according to a major report • Read the UN's Ogoniland report hereCleaning up a succession of oil spills in the Niger ...
16:20 : Shell oil spills in the Niger delta - in pictures -
Shell has accepted liability for two massive oil spills that have had severe consequences for the economy, health and development of the community of Bodo in Nigeria
11:41 : Shell oil spills in the Niger delta: 'Nowhere and no one has escaped' -
Two oil spills caused by Shell in 2008 have triggered ongoing social and environmental problems for the 69,000 people who live in the vicinity of BodoThe air stinks, the water stinks, and even the fish and crabs caught in Bodo creek smell of ...