More than 40,000 residents in the Niger River Delta have been demanding action against Shell over decades of oil spills in the region.
A Nigerian tribe received with “great disappointment” the decision taken by a British court on Thursday to block pollution claims against Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell.
Members of the Ogale and Bille communities, represented by London law firm Leigh Day, had applied for the case to be heard in Britain, arguing they could not get justice in Nigeria, but the High Court in London said it did not have jurisdiction in the case.
"Our community is disappointed but not discouraged by this judgement," King Emere Godwin Bebe Okpabi, ruler of the Ogale Community, said in a statement.
More than 40,000 Niger River Delta residents, who depend on fishing and farming for their livelihoods, have been demanding action against Shell over decades of oil spills in the region.
