Oil giant Shell is “blatantly false” when it claims it is cleaning up spills that continue to destroy the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Nigerians, Amnesty International has said.

ROYAL Dutch Shell has agreed to a $15.5 million (€11m) settlement to end a lawsuit alleging that the oil giant was complicit in the executions of activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and other civilians by Nigeria’s former military regime.

Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell is to pay out $15.5m (€11.1m) to settle a lawsuit over its alleged complicity in the 1995 execution of several Nigerian environmental activists.

DR COLMÁN ETCHINGHAM of NUI Maynooth asks why rural communities should be subjected to the construction of wind generators? (Irish Examiner letters, November 18).

WHATEVER the rights and wrongs of the Rossport/Shell controversy, it is disgusting to see gardaí baton citizens and violently manhandle them for the convenience of an extremely controversial multinational company.