ChinaView.cn: Shell has no case to answer in Nigerian standoff: company spokesman
Sunday 21 August 2005
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2005-08-21 04:14:32
LAGOS, Aug. 20 (Xinhuanet) — As the standoff between the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and local communities in Nigeria’s southern state of Rivers entered the fourth day, a Shell’s spokesman said Saturday the company had no case to answer.
The six communities on Tuesday shut the company’s flow stations in the area because of the unresolved issue of compensation and clean-up of the December 2003 spillage.
Explaining the circumstances that led to the impasse, SPDC’s Corporate External Affairs Manager Donald Boham said the attitude of the communities and weather conditions were responsible for the delay in the resolution of the crisis.