Nigerian Oil-Producing Communities Return To UK Court To Fight British Company, Shell Over Further Attempts To Delay Case On Oil Spillage, PollutionOgale and Bille, two oil-producing communities in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria have returned to a High Court to challenge the British multinational oil and gas company, Shell Plc over an attempt to delay a legal case against it by the communities on oil spillage and pollution.
Recall that in 2021 the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that there was a “good arguable case” that Shell plc, the UK parent company, were liable for the pollution affecting the two Niger Delta communities and that the cases should be heard in London.
Leigh Day said that the arguments to be heard by the court are particularly important given that the company is currently seeking to divest from the region leaving behind what has been recently labelled by an international commission of experts as an “environmental genocide”.