NEW YORK - Even as Jeroen van der Veer was preparing to pass the baton to Peter Voser, who took over as chief executive of the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell last Wednesday, the contentious legacy of the company's activity in Nigeria was nipping at its heels. Skip to next paragraph A blog about energy, the environment and the bottom line. Go to Blog » Just a few weeks earlier, Shell had agreed to settle a court case stemming from the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, a leader of the indigenous Ogoni...
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