Forbes: Nigerian Senate Orders Shell Unit to Pay
“Nigeria’s Senate has ordered a subsidiary of petroleum giant Royal/Dutch Shell to pay a Nigerian ethnic group US$1.5 billion… for oil spills in their homelands”
Associated Press
08.25.2004, 12:18 PM
Nigeria’s Senate has ordered a subsidiary of petroleum giant Royal/Dutch Shell to pay a Nigerian ethnic group US$1.5 billion (euro1.2 billion) for oil spills in their homelands, but the legislative body can’t enforce the resolution, an official said Wednesday.
Nigeria’s Senate ruled Tuesday that the unit, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd., must disburse the payment over five years to the Ijaw people of Nigeria’s oil-flush south as compensation for pollution in their area since 1956, Senate spokesman Henry Ugbolue said.
He acknowledged the senate had no power to enforce such a resolution, Ugbolue said. However, he suggested that President Olusegun Obasanjo might be able to enforce the order.
“The leadership of the Senate is committed to ensuring that the order is obeyed and I am sure they will do everything to prevail on the executive to enforce the order,” Ugbolue told the Associated Press.
Shell said in a statement it hadn’t received the resolution and couldn’t comment on it.
The Anglo-Dutch firm is the biggest oil company in Nigeria, accounting for half of the 2.5 million barrels pumped daily here. Nigeria is Africa’s largest oil exporter, the world’s seventh-largest oil exporter and the fifth-biggest source of U.S. oil imports.
The Ijaw people and others in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta have long complained that oil companies’ operations pollute their region of creeks and rivers, which remain among the poorest areas in Nigeria despite their vast petroleum stores. Thieves frequently tap into region’s pipelines and steal crude to sell, sometimes igniting deadly explosions and fouling lands.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
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