BMI & Contractors Meeting

The Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) facilitated Contractors Meetings. The purpose of contractors meetings with the BMI is to get updates on progress of operations, highlighting areas for action by stakeholders. The quarter’s meetings focused on managing the impact of the community leadership crisis on the operations of the contractors and the progress of the clean-up. Some of the outcomes of the meeting include the decision to temporarily pause all field activities because of tension in Bodo community. BMI also took a decision to engage with relevant stakeholders to help to restore dialogue and peace in the community. The meeting had different stakeholders in attendance, including the Remediation Contractors, BMI Directorate Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), and the Bodo Mediation Initiative (BMI) Project Directorate and the Bodo community represented by the Bodo Contact Committee (BCC). A total of three Contractors’ meetings were held within the fourth quarter of the second year of the project (Dec.2022 – March 2023).