Telegraph
9 August 2011
Royal Dutch Shell is being sued by an African king in a second case related to two oil spills at Bodo in the Niger Delta.
The suit was filed at London
Shell and its joint venture with the Nigerian government, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), were already facing a class action on behalf of 69,000 people in Bodo over the spills in 2008.
In this first case, SPDC said it will take responsibility and pay compensation. It is currently in negotiations over a settlement and the claim against Shell, the parent company, has ceased.
However, the joint venture moved to quash early estimates that the case could cost it upwards of $210m (£128m) in compensation, saying this was "misguided and massively in excess of the true position". Damages are likely to be in the tens of millions of dollars.
The second case, filed on behalf of King Felix Sunday Berebon, is understood to be at a much earlier stage of negotiation.
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