Sunday, February 3, 2013

Amnesty International: Shell should pay for Nigeria oil spills

Amnesty International has called on Shell to pay US$1 billion to start cleaning up two oil spills in Nigeria's Niger Delta which it says caused huge suffering to locals whose fisheries and farmland were poisoned.

A spokesman for Shell said on Thursday the company had already acknowledged the two oil spills and started cleaning up, adding that oil theft was responsible for most spills in the Delta.

The report by the human rights group to mark the 16th anniversary of the execution of

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