Amnesty International and various Nigerian NGOs have made a number of recommendations to improve the new Petroleum Bill. First, they have called upon the National Assembly to establish a process through which communities and civil society in oil-producing areas are consulted about the proposed new law. Second, as it stands, the new law does not require licensees to conduct assessments on the social and human rights impact of their operations as part of the licensing process. The NGOs have said that this is a major inadequacy that should be rectified...Third, they recommend that the bill remove uncertainty from the compensation system. [refers to Shell]