Voice of America: Shell in Court Over Nigeria Pollution Charges

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Shell in Court Over Nigeria Pollution Charges Oct 11th 2012, 17:07 The international oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell was in court Thursday facing charges of polluting Nigerian villages.  The case has been brought in a civil court in The Hague by four Nigerian farmers and the environmental campaigners Friends of the Earth.  The farmers are from the Ogoniland region of southern Nigeria and say they can no longer work or feed their families because oil spills in the area have damaged crops and fish farms. "Communities in Ogoniland had ... Media files: 4195D48E-2989-4022-A5DA-77D3A87A3819_cx0_cy3_cw0_w800_r1.jpg?nocache=1 (image/jpeg, 0 MB)

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