Prosecutor recommends that Brazilian courts reject $9.5 billion Ecuadorian contamination judgment

Worried by the unwillingness of the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) to compensate them over the April 15 oil leak incident from Shell's Kolo Creek oil fields that devastated t

Seven environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging safety rules issued earlier this month for trains carrying oil, arguing the regulations are too weak to protect the public.

The Environmental Protection Ministry intends to demand compensation of 111 million shekels ($28.8 million) from the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company for the damage caused to the Evrona Nature Reser

On December 9, 2014, a wrecked tanker released approximately 94,000 gallons (78,271 Imperial gallons) of heavy fuel oil into the Shela River, which runs through the Sundarbans, the sprawling and re

Yenagoa/Port Harcourt — No fewer than 50 farmers impacted by the April 15 oil leak incident from Shell's Kolo Creek oil fields in Otuasega, Bayelsa have decried damages they suffered from the incid

Some five months after an oil tanker carrying furnace oil capsized in Shela River harming flora and fauna of the Sundarbans, another vessel carrying fertilizer made up of toxic chemicals, sank in B

A third financier, Woodsford Litigation Funding, has disavowed its investment in an American attorney's long-running Ecuador lawsuit

Port Harcourt — Pastor Christian Lekova Kpanddei wears his camera like a weapon, slung over a T-shirt telling oil giant Shell to "Own Up. Pay Up. Clean Up".

Abuja — THE Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, yesterday called for a review of the environmental impact asse