Shell was once a major driller in Nigeria's oil-rich Ogoni region. The lawsuit alleged Shell made payments and provided arms to security forces that it knew abused local communities.
October 9th, 2008:
NYC trial date for racketeering claims against Shell
Shell protester accused of ‘lunge’ towards President
SHELL TO Sea protester Maura Harrington has appeared in Belmullet District Court accused of "lunging" towards President Mary McAleese at the official opening of a civic centre in Belmullet in April of 2007.
Nigerian militants threaten anarchy over graft case
The six day "oil war" forced Royal Dutch Shell, the company hardest hit, to warn it may not be able to meet all of its contractual obligations on oil exports from Nigeria.
NYC trial date for claims against Shell
The Associated Press
Published: October 9, 2008
NEW YORK: A February date has been set for a trial of claims that Royal Dutch Shell PLC was complicit in decisions by Nigeria’s military government to hang oil industry opponents. Playwright Ken Sara-Wiwa and eight other oil industry opponents were executed in November 1995, after a military tribunal convicted them of murdering four political rivals. Their heirs filed a lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan the next year.Shell was once a major driller in Nigeria’s oil-rich Ogoni region. The lawsuit alleged Shell made payments and provided arms to security forces that it knew was abusive to local communities.
A Shell lawyer said at a hearing Tuesday that the plaintiffs have never identified anyone with personal knowledge of the allegations in the lawsuit.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/08/business/NA-US-Shell-Nigeria.php
Royal Dutch Shell to go to Trial for Complicity in Torture and Murder of Nigerian Protesters
New York, October 8, 2008 Yesterday, Judge Kimba Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York set a trial date of February 9, 2009 for a human rights and racketeering case against the Royal Dutch Shell company (Shell) and the head of its Nigerian operation, Brian Anderson. The case was first filed in 1996. The judge rejected Shells attempt to file additional legal motions to postpone a trial date.
We are looking forward to finally bringing Shell into court, where we will prove their role in the torture and murder of our clients and their pattern of human rights abuses, said CCR attorney Jennie Green. It’s time for our clients and their families to see justice.
Shell Australia: Clyde refinery to halt output
SYDNEY, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc's Australian unit said on Thursday its Clyde refinery in Sydney would temporarily shut down its refining process units for maintenance work at the end of November.