The oil company did not acknowledge wrongdoing but has agreed to settle claims that it was complicit in the 1995 abuse and hanging of Nigerian playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa and other activists protesting the environmental impact of oil drilling in the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta. The settlement averts what would have been a rare Alien Tort Claims Act trial.
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Shell Agrees to $15.5 Million Settlement in Nigeria Alien Tort Claims Act Case
June 8, 2009
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