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A fine of $5 billion dollars has been imposed on the Shell Petroleum and Development Company, SPDC, by the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA.
The fine was imposed due to the 2011 Bonga oil spill incident which occurred in December 2011.
Addressing the press on the fine, Peter Idabor, Director-General NOSDRA said, "The kind of impunity Shell and its allies have demonstrated so far in the Niger Delta area in the past should be addressed if the future and people of Nigeria and the environment are to be protected", he said.
He said that the oil spill, which occurred in December 2011 and spread over 100 nautical miles from the ocean, deprived fishermen in the affected areas of Bayelsa and Delta of their means of livelihood.
"They could not go there to fish; nets that they normally put in water ways were stained and people lost their means of livelihood. Even the fishes themselves, because of the chemical, migrated from the crude oil. The overall impact was for that chemical to have entered the Atlantic Ocean; it must have killed millions of fish and other living organisms", he said.
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, had also asked Shell to pay $6.5 billion (about N1 trillion) as compensation to the victims of the spill. It is not yet clear if Shell would pay the levies or would challenged the directives in court.
The fine was imposed due to the 2011 Bonga oil spill incident which occurred in December 2011.
Addressing the press on the fine, Peter Idabor, Director-General NOSDRA said, "The kind of impunity Shell and its allies have demonstrated so far in the Niger Delta area in the past should be addressed if the future and people of Nigeria and the environment are to be protected", he said.
He said that the oil spill, which occurred in December 2011 and spread over 100 nautical miles from the ocean, deprived fishermen in the affected areas of Bayelsa and Delta of their means of livelihood.
"They could not go there to fish; nets that they normally put in water ways were stained and people lost their means of livelihood. Even the fishes themselves, because of the chemical, migrated from the crude oil. The overall impact was for that chemical to have entered the Atlantic Ocean; it must have killed millions of fish and other living organisms", he said.
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, had also asked Shell to pay $6.5 billion (about N1 trillion) as compensation to the victims of the spill. It is not yet clear if Shell would pay the levies or would challenged the directives in court.
