Follow up: Shell complicity in executions

June 9, 2009
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“Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell is to pay out $15.5million (£9.7m) to settle a lawsuit over its alleged complicity in the 1995 execution of several Nigerian environmental activists.
In a move announced yesterday, the company acknowledged no wrongdoing in the 1995 hangings of six people opposed to oil exploration in the west African country, including playwright and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa”

It just seems like a lot of money to pay if you’re innocent? Maybe someday I’ll have billions to throw around and understand that $15 million is pocket change to make such mess go away, whether I’m innocent or not.

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