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Shell’s Niger Delta oil-spill case to be heard in UK courts

Claimants dispute the operator has cleaned up and remediated spills, even though sabotage is blamed

Spill: a man scoops spilled crude oil into a bottle from the waters of the Niger Delta swamps of Bodo, a village in Nigeria's producing Ogoniland region, which hosts Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC)
Spill: a man scoops spilled crude oil into a bottle from the waters of the Niger Delta swamps of Bodo, a village in Nigeria's producing Ogoniland region, which hosts Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC)Photo: AFP/SCANPIX
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Published 22 July 2021, 08:13Updated 22 July 2021, 08:13