Posts Tagged ‘Amnesty International.’

By Sara Murphy December 14, 2012 Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS-A  ) is the respondent in a landmark case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court. The outcome of Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum will have significant implications for the oil and gas sector, and potentially for other extractive companies operating in sensitive regions. This, among other factors, [...]

Garda guide for Corrib protests proposed ÁINE RYAN A human rights report on the policing of the controversial Corrib gas project has recommended that the Department of Justice publish a guide defining methods that may be legitimately used by An Garda Síochána during protests. The report on the Corrib Human Rights Monitoring Initiative states this [...]

29 October 2012 Leaks in oil pipes in Nigeria were allowed to flow for 10 weeks before Shell came to the site to stop them. © Amnesty International Audrey Gaughran, Director of Amnesty International’s Africa Programme For decades the oil industry in Nigeria’s Niger Delta has caused widespread pollution of land and water, damaging people’s [...]

3 August 2012 (RTTNews) – Amnesty International and the Center for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) on Friday challenged the investigation process into oil spills in the Niger Delta, as inconsistencies in Shell’s (RDS-A) claims about sabotage were revealed. Experts have examined evidence from the latest oil spill from Shell’s poorly maintained pipelines in [...]

2 August 2012 LAGOS — Rights group Amnesty International said Friday investigations into Shell oil spills in Nigeria were a “fiasco,” alleging the company repeatedly blamed sabotage in an effort to avoid responsibility. “No matter what evidence is presented to Shell about oil spills, they constantly hide behind the ‘sabotage’ excuse and dodge their responsibility [...]

23 April 2012 A major oil spill in the Niger Delta was far worse than Shell previously admitted, according to an independent assessment obtained by Amnesty International and the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD), which exposes how the oil giant dramatically under-estimated the quantities involved. The spill in 2008, caused by a [...]

By Erik Larson – Mar 23, 2012 5:02 PM GMT A unit of Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), Europe’s largest oil company, was sued in Britain by 11,000 Nigerians who say their land, rivers and wetlands were spoiled by two “massive” spills in the Niger River delta in 2008. The lawsuit against Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary [...]

By Sophie Mongalvy (AFP) 22 December 2011 LAGOS — Authorities rushed to prevent one of Nigeria’s worst recent oil spills from reaching the West African nation’s shoreline on Thursday, with production from a major Shell field also shut due to the leak. Shell, which said the leak has been stopped, has estimated that less than [...]

Hélène Michaud: 18 November 2011 Cleaning up extensive oil pollution in the Niger Delta is the primary responsibility of the Nigerian government, Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal told a parliamentary commission on Thursday. He was supported by the Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs, Henk Bleker, who pointed out that the Nigerian government, like all governments, [...]

Rights group says oil giant’s 2008 spills have wrecked livelihoods of 69,000 people and will take 30 years to clean up Reuters guardian.co.uk, Thursday 10 November 2011 18.04 GMT Shell’s oil spills in the Niger Delta (pictured) mean the region needs the world’s largest clean-up, says the United Nations Environment Programme. Photograph: AP Royal Dutch [...]

10 Nov, 2011, 02.35AM IST, AFP LONDON: Oil giant Shell should commit $1 billion (700,000 euros) as a first step to clean up the Niger Delta following two devastating oil spills in 2008, rights groups said Thursday. Shell has accepted responsibility for the spills in the southern Nigerian state of Ogoniland that affected the Bodo [...]

DOWNLOAD FULL REPORT Received by email from Okeke Uche and Anasonye Festus (Scientists, University of Helsinki, Finland). Also sent to Jorma Ollia and Peter Voser, Royal Dutch Shell Plc. Greetings……… Our attention has been drawn to the most recent report on the oil spillage issue in the Ogoniland, Nigeria. This is a great victory for [...]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (UPI) — Royal Dutch Shell has a disastrous legacy of environmental damage through its lengthy involvement in the Nigerian oil sector, advocacy groups charge. Shell faces questions Wednesday before the Dutch Parliament regarding its activity in the oil-rich Niger Delta region. Amnesty International and Friends of the Earth International announced they had [...]

By Eduard Gismatullin – Jan 25, 2011 12:33 PM GMT+0000 Royal Dutch Shell Plc was accused by Amnesty International and Friends of the Earth International of using discredited and misleading information in blaming the majority of oil spills in the Niger Delta on saboteurs. The two groups said in an e-mailed report today that they [...]