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A huge payout by Shell for spilling oil will not necessarily help those who suffered from the environmental damage

On 3 August, the oil giant Shell agreed in the London High Court to settle a compensation claim for oil spills in Bodo, in the Niger Delta. This is a district with about 70,000 residents in the Ogoni region, home to half a million of the Delta’s 30 million people. Shell had hoped to settle the case quietly out of court, for a sum believed to be well over £100 mn. (US$163 mn.)....

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Italy, France, Côte d’Ivoire, Goodluck Jonathan, United States, Compensation consternation, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sani Abacha, Disunited beneficiaries, Ledum Mitee, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, Goodluck Diigbo, , Malcolm Brinded, Delta bosses and bunkerers, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, Tompolo, Ufot Ekaette, Chibuzor Ugwoha