Nigeria: Oil Spills, Natural Gas Flares, and Bunkering
By Mohammed Hamid Mohammed: March 01, 2011.
The big banner, imitating thick oozing oil, hung from the façade of Shell Headquarters in the Hague, Netherlands. It read: Shell, lets go clean Nigeria!, and was put up by activists on January 26, 2011 the date the Dutch parliament scheduled a hearing to examine what Amnesty International and environmental groups alleged was the extremely hazardous environmental practices of the company. Shell simply denied the accusations, and went as far as declining to pay the rather small $100 million dollars a Nigeria court slapped on it as compensation for victims.