ONE OF SHELL’S biggest secrets is out.
After waiting over 15 years, almost two dozen Barbadian farmers received close to $20 million in compensation from the Shell oil company seven years ago in a settlement which until now had never been revealed.
Despite those farmers having agreed to sign a no-disclosure agreement with US law firm Cohen, Milstein, Haustein & Toll PLLC, WEEKEND NATION investigations have revealed that Shell Western Supply & Trading Company Ltd paid $17 million in compensation to 20 Christ Church farmers back in 2010, after jet A1 fuel leaked from a pipeline between Grantley Adams International Airport and Oistins terminal, damaging crops and causing a decline in production.
The leakage affected nearly 200 acres of farmland spanning Gibbons Boggs, Wilcox, Pegwell, Chancery Lane and Ealing Grove. (RB)
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