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TAKE ACTION: Demand corporate accountability
The Global Greengrants Fund has set up an online petition calling on Shell to immediately clean up its appalling pollution in the Niger Delta and end its daily human rights abuses. The action has...
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A quick plug for our new (and beautiful) printed reports
Counting the Cost, Platform’s new report on Shell Nigeria, is now available in print! Please buy your copy here. The report looks and feels incredible, thanks to our amazing designers at Ultimate...
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Own Up, Clean Up, Pay Up: Amnesty’s new report on Shell
Amnesty International today demanded that Shell immediately pay $1 billion towards an initial clean up fund for the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta, a scheme recommended by the UN this August. A new...
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Protest Exposes Shell’s Grim Record on Human Rights
Last night Shell came face to face with its grim record on human rights in Nigeria at a corporate event for London’s bright young entrepreneurs. Protesters in haunting costumes from London Rising Tide...
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Sattelite images of Shell’s massive oil spill in Nigeria
Envisat ASAR image analyzed by SkyTruth (http://www.skytruth.org) - data courtesy European Space Agency The Bonga oil field, one of Shell’s largest offshore oil facilities was shut down on Tuesday 20...
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Shell oil spill worst in a decade, says Nigerian regulator
Nigeria’s oil spill agency, NOSDRA, says that Shell’s Bonga oil spill “is likely the worst in a decade.” Peter Idabor of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency told The Associated Press...
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Legal Oil, Ethical Oil and Profiteering in the Niger Delta and the Canadian...
In this guest blog post, Professor Anna Zalik of York University Canada explores how governments and multinationals criminalise protest and gloss over the environmental injustices of oil extraction....
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The Big 3: oil co’s and legal cases this month
Three of the world’s biggest private oil companies face landmark legal actions this February. Here is a brief run down of the main cases, what they are about and why they matter. 1. US v BP At the...
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Hold Shell accountable for human rights abuses in Nigeria
A global coalition of NGOs, human rights monitors, academics and analysts have joined Platform in sending a letter to the Board members of Royal Dutch Shell and Shell Nigeria which holds Shell to...
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IRIN news: Gas flares still a burning issue in the Niger Delta
The UN’s humanitarian news network, IRIN has reported on the ongoing health crisis caused by gas flaring in the Niger Delta. The burning off of gas that comes mixed with crude oil is harmful, illegal...
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