Lagos, August 16 (RHC)-- 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.
Environmental and social activists say that the $111 million penalty is just a small fraction of Shell’s annual profits, which totaled $16.5 billion in 2019.
