The oil giant Shell will finally be a Process at the London Alta Court from tomorrow 13 February until 7 March 2025 on charges of having polluted The habitat of two Nigerian communities devastated their right to a clean and healthy environment devastated.
The process is a key moment in the legal cause of the communities Ogale And Bille In the Niger delta (in total there are about 80 thousand inhabitants), which since 2015 fight against the PLC Shell based in the United Kingdom and its Nigerian SPDC branch for a reclamation and compensation.
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Those communities suffered from hundreds of leaks, which left them without clean water, unable to cultivate and fish and have created serious risks for public health.
What happened
In fact, the complaints arose from the damage that the residents of Ogale and Bille suffered and continue to suffer. In 2011, the environmental evaluation of the AGONILANLAND of the United Nations program for the environment reported how the Ogoni people were exposed daily to a serious oil contamination, with an impact on their water sources, on air quality and on agricultural land. The UNEP then recommended to adopt urgent measures to guarantee reclamation and discovered that there was “immediate danger to public health”.
In Ogale, the emergency water system has not worked for years and most residents do not have access to clean water since groundwater and aquifers are seriously polluted.
In Bille, the community drinking water is also polluted and oil has killed most fish and molluscs in the rivers, leaving without a source of food or income. Obviously all this has led to a radical change in the way of life of the Bille community.
The communities of Bille and Ogale are engaged in the dispute with Shell in reality already in 2015: 10 years of struggles.
On February 12, 2021, theAt the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, he unanimously established that it existed “a good question that is questionable“According to which Shell Plc, the Mother Society of the United Kingdom, He was legally responsible for the systemic pollution caused by his Nigerian branchSPDC.
Finally now the case is proceeding with the trial to determine whether the parent company of Shell in London, as well as its Nigerian subsidiary SDPC, is legally responsible for the damage caused to the communities in Nigeria.
