{"id":21179,"date":"2021-02-02T18:42:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T18:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=181773"},"modified":"2021-02-02T18:42:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T18:42:55","slug":"court-orders-shell-to-pay-nigerian-farmers-over-oil-spills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/02\/court-orders-shell-to-pay-nigerian-farmers-over-oil-spills\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Orders Shell To Pay Nigerian Farmers Over Oil Spills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch court has ordered the Nigerian subsidiary of Shell to pay compensation over oil spills in Nigeria\u2019s Niger Delta, a ruling which could pave the way for more cases against multinational oil firms.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeal in The Hague on Friday ruled that the Nigerian arm of the British-Dutch company must issue payouts over a long-running civil case involving four Nigerian farmers who were seeking compensation, and a clean-up, from the company over pollution caused by leaking oil pipelines.<\/p>\n<p>It held Shell\u2019s Nigerian subsidiary liable for two leaks that spewed oil over an area of a total of about 60 football pitches in two villages, saying that it could not be established \u201cbeyond a reasonable doubt\u201d that saboteurs were to blame.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/court-orders-shell-to-pay-nigerian-farmers-over-oil-spills\/\">Court Orders Shell To Pay Nigerian Farmers Over Oil Spills<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/court-orders-shell-to-pay-nigerian-farmers-over-oil-spills\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch court has ordered the Nigerian subsidiary of Shell to pay compensation over oil spills in Nigeria\u2019s Niger Delta, a ruling which could pave the way for more cases against multinational oil firms.<br \/>\nThe Court of Appeal in The Hague on Friday ruled &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5722,943,1277,5731,5732],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21180,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179\/revisions\/21180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}