Amnesty slams Shell over oil spills in Nigeria

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Source: AFP

LAGOS (AFP) – Amnesty International and Friends of the Earth Tuesday said they had filed an official complaint against Ango-Dutch firm Shell for shirking responsibility for oil spills in Nigeria and wreaking havoc on the environment.

A joint statement said Shell's operations in the southern oil-rich Niger Delta breached the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)'s guidelines for responsible business.

"The organisations claim that Shell?s use of discredited and misleading information to blame the majority of oil pollution on saboteurs in its Niger Delta operations has breached the OECD guidelines for multi-national enterprises," it said.

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"Water that people use for fishing and drinking is polluted with oil, while farm land and crops have been destroyed."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110125/ts_afp/nigeriaoilshellenvironmentrightsamnesty

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