The Niger Delta Congress, NDC, has vowed to take legal action against the Royal Dutch Shell, should her subsidiaries in Nigeria failed to fix the environmental carnage it has created in the Niger Delta region, before her planned divestment of its onshore assets. Recall that the Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Dutch Shell – the parent company of the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, SPDC, Ben van Beurden, recently confirmed that the company was in talks with the Nigerian government to sell the company’s stake in onshore and shallow water oilfields in the Niger Delta region. The planned divestment is not unconnected with incessant cases of oil spills, pipeline vandalism and sabotage as well as operational issues. The spills have led to costly repair operations and high-profile lawsuits against the company. Reacting on the development, the Niger Delta Congress condemned the planned divestment of the shallow waters and onshore assets by Shell.
Source: https://sweetcrudereports.com/ndc-urges-shell-to-remediate-n-delta-environment-before-divestment/