Shell
Petroleum and Development Company has denied that it lied to a Dutch court in
The Hague about oil pollution in the Niger Delta.
The
multinational company, half owned by Nigerian government and with significant
Dutch shareholding, said sabotage, not company negligence, caused the spills in
2004 along the Trans-Niger pipeline that destroyed several hectares of mangrove
forests and the livelihoods of the residents of Goi village.
SPDC,
according to AFP,
