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BBC News - Shell Nigeria case: Court acquits firm on most charges
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The level of damages in that case will be established at a later hearing. The Shell Petroleum Development Co is the largest oil and gas company in Nigeria - Africa's top energy producer - with an output of more than one million barrels of oil or equivalent per day. Only one of the Nigerian plaintiffs, Eric Barizaadooh, was in court on Wednesday and his claim was rejected, But he said he was happy for the village that won compensation. "For my colleagues who succeeded, that is victory," he said. "Shell is brought to book. I believe this is a revolutionary case." The BBC's Will Ross in Lagos says foreign oil companies know that they can be taken to court outside Nigeria. He notes that cases before the Nigerian courts are moving at a snail's pace and few of the plaintiffs have any faith in the local justice system. Shell still faces many other legal challenges, our correspondent says. Another verdict is due later this year in a court in London, in a case that thousands of people from one badly polluted Niger Delta community hope will force Shell to pay compensation. The company has already admitted responsibility for that oil spill.
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