Green | September 07, 2009 | 4 comments

Killing Oil

source: http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/nature/crude050909.html

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Chevron is one of six major oil companies in the world. Against this economic giant there is a trial underway in Ecuador, for environmental damage caused by Texaco company, now owned by Chevron, in the region of Lago Agrio. The oil company would have shed 130 million gallons of oil waste in the area, damaging the 30,000 inhabitants of the Amazon in Ecuador, at least 1400 of whom have developed cancer and physical deformities.
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    • This case has been in litigation for over two decades now and will likely go 2 more decades without resolve considering the oil companies know that it's cheaper for them to spend millions on legal and PR teams than it is to pay restitution in the form of a multi-billion dollar settlement.

      Oil companies make Gordon Gecko look like a philanthropist.

    • 2 years ago
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