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Recent Actions toward a Post-Oil Civilization
On the Ground in Nigeria and Ecuador

6 December 2025

Two recent developments in Africa and Latin America reveal concrete challenges and advances in today's struggles toward a post-oil civilization. 

From Africa, the recently-released Analysis of Nigeria’s 2024 Regulations for the Upstream Petroleum Environmental Remediation Fund exposes the inadequacy of currently-contemplated measures to finance the remediation and rehabilitation of territories subject to pollution resulting from upstream oil and gas operations by transnational companies in the Niger Delta.

file iconOil Remediation Fund Analysis -- Nigeria
file icon100 Steps to Dismantling Yasuni -- Ecuador
file iconEcos del Yasuni in English -- 10.25
file iconEcos del Yasuni in English -- 07.25
file iconYasuni -- A Space of Social and Environmental Conflict -- espanol
file iconYasuni in a Feminist Key 2014 -- espanol

UK Supreme Court Rules that Nigerian Communities can Sue Shell in the UK

Landmark Judgment in Case of Okpabi and Others v Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDS) and Another

25 February 2021

On Friday 12 February 2021, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the Court of Appeal was wrong to refuse villagers from the Ogale and Bille communities in the Niger Delta permission to sue Royal Dutch Shell (RDS) in London for damages allegedly caused by numerous oil spills from Shell oil pipelines.

The Appeal Court had previously ruled that the English courts have no jurisdiction to hear the case because RDS was found not to exercise control over its Nigerian subsidiaries.

file iconThe Corner House's written intervention in the case of Okpabi v. Shell

The World Bank, Red Flags and the Looting of Nigeria's Oil Revenues
Nicholas Hildyard

20 October 2018

The World Bank has invested almost a quarter of a billion dollars in Seven Energy, an oil and gas company operating in Nigeria. Months before the first investment was made, the then Governor of Nigeria's Central Bank alleged that the company's flagship contract involved operating a scheme that was looting billions of dollars in state revenues. A number of the people associated with the contract are now either on the run or charged with money laundering.