Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to pay a Nigerian fishing community for two massive oil spills that devastated
the Niger Delta region in 2008 and 2009. Shell will give $53 million of
the $83 million settlement, one of the largest settlements ever in
Africa, to 15,600 fishermen and farmers with the remaining $30 million
going to the broader Bodo community. This is the first time that
compensation for an oil spill has been paid directly to affected
individuals, according to the BBC.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/07/3608767/nigerian-oil-spill-payout-to-community-six-years-later/
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