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Shell told to pay $1.5 bln damages [Nigeria]
A Nigerian court said on Friday Royal Dutch Shell should pay $1.5 billion (861 billion pounds) in damages for pollution in oil-producing Bayelsa state, the latest instalment in a long-running case... Judge Okechukwu Okeke upheld a resolution by the National Assembly that Shell should pay the money to ethnic Ijaw communities in Bayelsa, in the impoverished Niger Delta... SPDC, the Nigerian arm of Shell said in a statement..."SPDC has appealed the judgement on, among other grounds, the strength of independent expert advice, which demonstrates that there is no evidence to support the claims of the group"...