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Shell sued over oil spill in Niger Delta
Royal Dutch Shell has been hit with a class-action lawsuit in London by the Bodo community of Nigeria, which suffered a "devastating" oil spill when a key pipeline burst in the summer of 2008. The community filed a lawsuit last month at the High Court against both Royal Dutch Shell and Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria…The new lawsuit against Shell has been sparked by a leak allegedly coming from the Trans-Niger pipeline, which the community says started…in August 2008 and continued for four months. Shell claimed it was only made aware of the problem on October 5 that year but the pipeline was not fixed until a month later…Shell declined to comment on the lawsuit or the Bodo spill…