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25 Jan 2011

Author:
Amnesty International & Friends of the Earth

[PDF] Royal Dutch Shell in the Niger Delta: Complaint to the UK and Dutch National Contact Points under the Specific Instance Procedure of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

This complaint sets out breaches of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises…by Shell…Friends of the Earth International and Amnesty International are concerned by Shell’s repeated claims about the proportion of oil spills in the Niger Delta that are due to sabotage committed by criminal gangs…Despite repeated requests being made in the past, Shell has failed to make clear the basis for the figures they have published and how the data were gathered…The implications of Shell’s repeated claims that between 70 per cent and 85 per cent and, most recently, 98 per cent of oil spills are due to sabotage are both serious and negative for the communities of the Niger Delta.

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