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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch appeals court on Friday held Royal Dutch Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary responsible for multiple oil pipeline leaks in the Niger Delta and ordered it to pay unspecified damages to farmers, in a victory for environmentalists.
Channa Samkalden, lawyer of Nigerian farmers and Milieudefensie, and Donald Pols, Director of Milieudefensie, react as they leave a Dutch appeals court after the verdict in a case over oil major Shell's responsibility for oil pollution in the Niger Delta, in the Hague, Netherlands January 29, 2021. REUTERS/Piroschka Van De Wouw
The case was brought in 2008 by four farmers and environmental group Friends of the Earth, seeking reparations for lost income from contaminated land and waterways in the region, the heart of Nigeria’s oil industry.