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Shell 'must act on oil spills' in the Niger Delta, say campaigners
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BP ordered to pay Alaska $255million after negligence led to two oil spills
A subsidiary BP has been ordered to pay the state of Alaska $255 million for royalties the state lost because of production shutdowns after two North Slope oil spills in 2006 and a subsequent pipeline replacement project. A three-member arbitration...
Shell under fresh pressure over reports of the size of its Niger Delta oil spills
Royal Dutch Shell's claims to be reducing the amount of oil it spills in Nigeria have been undermined by a report into how it publishes data on environmental disasters. The Anglo-Dutch firm has been at pains to show that most spills in the Niger Delta...
Shell admits 207 oil spills in 2011
Shell has revealed that its global oil spill record got worse over the last year with 207 sizeable incidents in 2011. The revelations in the company's annual report — which shows chief executive Peter Voser earned £4.5m last year — come less than 24...
Ogoniland oil spills: Dutch case against Shell to begin
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