Tag: Ecuador
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Chevron Hides Evidence That Proves Guilt in Ecuador Rainforest Contamination Case
The playbook details how the company hid evidence of contamination during an eight-year …
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U.S. Judge Sides With Chevron in Case Against Ecuadorians, Allows Oil Giant to Evade Justice
Amazon Watch stands with Ecuadorian communities in rejecting a misguided judgment delaying justice for some 30,000 indigenous people and farmers who continue to suffer from the company’s toxic legacy in the Amazon rainforest. The decision—handed down yesterday by New York District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan—also underscores the threat that well-financed corporations pose to justice and the rule…
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Ecuadorians 40+ Year Fight Against Chevron Continues Into 2014
“This is the Court of Chancery … which gives to monied might the means abundantly of wearying out the right, which so exhausts finances, patience, courage, hope, so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart …” — Charles Dickens, Bleak House The court proceedings in the case of the 21st century, between multinational oil giant…
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A Look at Why Ecuador Abandoned the Plan to Leave Oil in the Soil in Amazon
On Aug. 15, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa announced his government’s abandonment of the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the innovative attempt to reverse the economic arrangement of oil extraction in the Amazon by keeping the oil in the soil in exchange for international assistance.
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Protecting One-Fifth of Earth’s Land Could Save Two-Thirds of Plant Species
“We’re getting tantalizingly close to achieving the Convention of Biological Diversity’s global goals. But the last few steps remaining are huge ones.”