Abstract

The unsustainable exploitation of crude oil in the Niger Delta resulted in the devastation of the region's environment, adversely affecting the traditional mode of land utilisation. Poor environmental regulations and the inefficiency of regulatory agencies aggravated this situation. The Niger Delta people have responded inter alia by instituting actions and claims based on the tort of negligence. Legal claims were made in Nigerian Courts and in the domestic courts of the home-states of the multinational oil companies operating in the region. The bulk of these actions ...