Amnesty details Shell's pollution in Niger Delta

Amnesty International last week called on Shell plc to answer for decades of pollution in the Niger Delta following their report detailing how Shell oil pollution has damaged water, farmland, fisheries, health and livelihoods, while the company continued to profit and deny responsibility. A Jurist report notes that the study, titled Nigeria: Lifting the Lid: Internal documents, exposes Shell’s negligent oil operations, and examines internal Shell documents which confirm the long-standing complaints of residents of the Niger delta. Amnesty reports that the documents confirm concerns raised by the Nigerian army over alleged complicity in oil theft, collusion, and neglectful conduct which has led to oil spills. Amnesty International is the first group to report on these recently disclosed documents following legal proceedings in the UK last summer. Shell has previously been found responsible for oil spills in the Niger Delta. In 2021, the Dutch Court of Appeal found Shell liable for three oil spills in Goi, Oruma and Ikot Ada Udo, Nigeria following over a decade of litigation. That same year, Shell also announced that it would pay $111.6m to settle a decades-long legal dispute over an oil spill that occurred during the Biafran-Nigerian civil war in the 1970s.