The Nation Newspaper Delta community threatens legal action over exclusion from Chevron's trust fund
Authorities of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority and the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission have been urged to prevail on Chevron Nigeria Limited to include the oil-producing community of Aja-Omaetan in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State in Chevron’s planned Host Community Development Trust Fund .
The Aja-Omaetan community threatened to sue should NMDPRA and NUPRC fail to prevail on Chevron to accommodate it in compliance with the provision of the PIA, requiring oil firms to set up trust funds for the benefit of their host communities.
“However, our client’s findings show that it has been maliciously excluded from the list of qualified and entitled communities in Dibi Field in an attempt to punish her .
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