Shell to pay USD80m compensation to Nigerians
(MENAFN) Royal Dutch Shell is to pay more than USD80 million to a Nigerian fishing community "devastated" by two serious oil spills in 2008, while the clean-up could take years, The Peninsula Qatar reported.
The Anglo-Dutch energy giant's Nigerian arm has agreed to pay USD83.5 million to people in Bodo, a town in southern Nigeria, following a three-year legal battle.
The Shell petroleum Company of Nigeria (SPDC) will pay around USD41.49 million in compensation to 15,600 Nigerian fishermen whose livelihoods were affected, and a further USD23.7 million to the wider community.
"We are hopeful that the clean-up of the Bodo environment will follow suit in no distant time," chairman of the Bodo council said. The clean-up is expected to begin over the next two to three months.
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