A UK court heard a case brought against the international oil company Shell by communities in Nigeria’s Niger River Delta. The Ogoni people claim that decades of oil spills by Shell and its local subsidiary in Nigeria have left the region with contaminated drinking water and farmlands. Shell contends that “oil spills due to theft, illegal refining and sabotage” are to blame for the pollution. The World’s Carol Hils spoke to Diolu Tobechukwu, a climate justice advocate based in the city of Port Harcourt in the Nigeria’s River State.
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