"We will not accept abandonment." Monarch files multibillion-dollar lawsuit against oil giant Shell over allegedly harmful practices: 'Cannot be a sacrificial zone' first appeared on The Cool Down.

CIVICUS speaks with Matthew Renshaw, a partner at a UK law firm that represents Nigerian communities taking legal action against Shell over environmental damage caused by its operations in the Niger ...

The largest oil operator in Nigeria, Royal Dutch Shell, began evacuating all staff dependants from the Niger Delta on Thursday after militants planted a car bomb in a residential compound ...

Activists say Shell has a history of poor divestment in the region. They point to a wellhead blowout in the Santa Barbara River, which flows through the Niger Delta, in 2021.

Civil society groups yesterday, protested at the Head Office of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Lagos, demanding a cleanup of the Niger Delta region amid the company’s plan to exit ...

According to Shell, since 2011, about 90% of oil spills from SPDC-operated facilities in the Niger Delta have been caused by sabotage and theft.

Shell's $2.4 billion sale of its onshore business to a group of local companies was confirmed last week by Nigeria’s special advisor to the president on energy, Olu Verheijen.

FILE – A member of Shell staff on the Bonga offshore oil Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel off the coast of the Niger Delta in Nigeria, on Dec. 26, 2011.

Activists say Shell has a history of poor divestment in the region. They point to a wellhead blowout in the Santa Barbara River, which flows through the Niger Delta, in 2021. The wellhead wasn’t ...

Activists say Shell has a history of poor divestment in the region. They point to a wellhead blowout in the Santa Barbara River, which flows through the Niger Delta, in 2021.

Activists say Shell has a history of poor divestment in the region. They point to a wellhead blowout in the Santa Barbara River, which flows through the Niger Delta, in 2021.