Oil giant Shell has accepted responsibility for two devastating oil spills in Nigeria's Ogoniland region. The Bodo fishing community sued Shell in the UK, alleging that spills in 2008 and 2009 had destroyed the environment and ruined their livelihoods. Their lawyer said they would seek hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation for one of the world's "most devastating oil spills". Shell told the BBC it would settle the case under Nigerian law….Martyn Day, representing the 69,000-strong community, said they would demand "adequate compensation immediately"….Shell said it accepted the spills were caused by equipment failure and not by sabotage or theft, which it said cause most of the spills in the oil-producing Niger Delta region.