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In the U.S. we often speak of environmental justice as an idea: a concept that guides our work, a state of ecological equity that we strive toward. But for the people here in Ecuador living with the massive oil pollution deliberately dumped here by by American oil company Texaco from 1962 to 1992, the concept [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 30, 2012
The courthouse stands four stories high along the main drag of Lago Agrio. Like all other buildings in the town, the weather has gotten the best of it. It is tropically dilapidated. The colors, off-white with yellow trim, are ruined. The cement shows signs of crumbling, and from up close the black mold appears to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 7, 2012
…a local man named Donald Moncayo showed me around. Wearing white surgical gloves, he dug up a fistful of black mud and held it so that the sunlight caught the telltale blue-orange tint of petroleum. At one fetid pit in a jungle glade, he stepped gingerly onto the surface of the pool, where the solid [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 3, 2012
An appeals court in Ecuador has just upheld the $18 billion decision against Chevron for its massive oil pollution in the Amazon. Reuters reports: Ecuador court upholds $18 bln ruling against Chevron LAGO AGRIO, Ecuador Jan 3 (Reuters) – An Ecuadorean appeals court on Tuesday upheld a ruling that Chevron Corp should pay $18 billion in [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 10, 2011
Matador Change recently published a photo essay about Chevron’s legacy in Ecuador by Amazon Watch’s corporate campaigns director Mitch Anderson. Matador Change is the advocacy/altruism/social change part of the Matador Network, an online magazine devoted to travel and adventure. Check out the introduction to the photo essay and a few select photos, and then check [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 17, 2010
The mighty Aguarico River is where the Cofán people have fished, bathed, and washed for many generations. The river also traditionally provided the community’s main source of drinking water. It was the lifeblood of the Cofán. But the Aguarico now holds a very different meaning for the Cofán and for Emergildo Criollo, a leader in [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 5, 2009
I’m sitting opposite the ‘Hotel Black Gold’ as the sun goes down over Lago Agrio and the streets start to hum with evening traffic, people returning home from work and families out walking together. It’s hard to believe that just a few short hours ago this street was filled with hundreds of indigenous people and [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 15, 2009
Link to original article: In Ecuador, Resentment Oozes Long After an Oil Company Departs – NYTimes.com. By SIMON ROMERO and CLIFFORD KRAUSS Moises Saman for The New York Times. An open oil pit near La Joya de los Sachas, Ecuador. Published: May 14, 2009 SHUSHUFINDI, Ecuador — Mention to Anita Ruíz the name of the [...]
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