Shell survives legal challenge by Nigerian farmers
(01-30 17:41)
A Dutch court rejected a bid by a group of Nigerian farmers to have Shell's parent company held responsible for oil damage, saying only subsidiary Shell Nigeria was responsible for one oil leak.
The court “dismissed all claims against the parent companies... since pursuant to Nigerian law a parent company in principle is not obliged to prevent its subsidiaries from harming third parties abroad,'' judge Henk Wien told the court, AFP reports.
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