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August 16, 2021

Shell to Pay $111 Million for Nigeria Oil Spills in 1970s
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In southern Nigeria, Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to pay $111 million to
Ogoni communities whose land was ravaged by oil spills over a
half-century ago. Shell's payment caps decades of legal wrangling in a
case that was first brought in 1991 - over a pipeline that ruptured in
1970. The $111 million penalty is just a small fraction of Shell's
annual profits, which totaled $16.5 billion in 2019.


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