Ecuadorian Court Orders Chevron to Pay $17 Billion for Oil Pollution in Amazon
The oil giant Chevron has been ordered to pay more than $17 billion in fines and punitive damages in a long-running case over environmental contamination in Ecuador. Amazonian residents sued Texaco, which was then purchased by Chevron, for dumping billions of gallons of toxic oil waste into Ecuador’s rain forest since the 1970s. (...)
The article:
http://amazonwatch.org/news/2011/0215-ecuadorian-court-orders-chevron-to-pay-17-billion-for-oil-pollution-in-amazon
More about:
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/1004410
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Documents/Oilpollution/Ecuador
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/1004528
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/1005533
Sull'argomento:
http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/notizie/2011-02-15/ecuador-chevron-144822.shtml?uuid=AaBkAX8C
http://www.climatealliance.it/notizie/88/ITA/83/Chevron-condannato-in-Ecuador
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Basic information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_Corporation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texaco#Environmental_issues
http://www.cdca.it/spip.php?article1253
From Chevron website:
http://www.chevron.com/ecuador/
The website ChevronToxico:
http://chevrontoxico.com/
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Conflitti ambientali in Ecuador: