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Court Orders Nigerian Gas Flaring to Stop (14 Nov 2005)
On 14th November 2005, the Federal High Court of Nigeria ordered that gas flaring must stop in a Niger Delta community as it violates guaranteed constitutional rights to life and dignity. In a case brought against the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (Shell), Justice C. V. Nwokorie ruled in Benin City that the damaging and wasteful practice of flaring cannot lawfully continue. All the major multinational oil companies in Nigeria flare gas, including ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco, TotalFinaElf and Agip, as well as Shell, in joint ventures with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, and the breadth of the ruling makes clear that their flaring is also illegal.
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