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Court Verdict in the Netherlands: Ruling Against Shell Opens Prospects for Impacted Communities
Press release from ERA/FoE Nigeria. The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has hailed a Dutch appeals court ruling today (Friday December 18, 2015) which affirmed that Shell parent …
Dutch Court Rules Against Shell for damages in Nigeria
The ruling by a Dutch court on January 30, 2013 holding Shell responsible for the pollution of farmlands at Ikot Ada Udo (Nigeria) is a step towards environmental justice. However, …
Canada should rein in its criminal mining companies
By Nick Meynen and Leah Temper. At the end of 2010, a woman from Guatemala sued a Canadian mining giant in Toronto, asking 12 million $ for the killing of her …
Verdict Expected in Court Case on Oil Giant Shell’s Nigerian Oil Pollution
EJOLT partner Nnimmo Bassey from ERA has send us a press release from Friends of the Earth Netherlands in relation to the decades of oil pollution in his native country …
It’s paytime for Chevron’s ecological debt in Ecuador
On 3 January 2012, an appellate court in Ecuador confirmed an earlier lower court decision that found Chevron-Texaco guilty of a wide range of damages linked to their former oil …
