Shell Faces UK Trial Over Oil Spills in Nigeria

The High Court in London has ruled that thousands of Nigerians can sue Shell for breaching their right to a clean environment due to oil spills, law firm Leigh Day, representing the plaintiffs, said on Thursday. “If the case succeeds at trial, it will be the first time in legal history that a UK multinational will have been found to have breached a communities’ right to a clean environment,” the law firm said in a statement. In February this year, more than 13,000 residents from the Ogale and Bille communities in Nigeria filed…