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In feathers and paint, Amazonians sue U.S. oil giant
AP ^
| Wednesday, October 22, 2003
Posted on 10/22/2003 1:10:05 PM PDT by presidio9
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:03:18 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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A decade after Texaco pulled out of the Amazon jungle, the U.S. petroleum giant went on trial Tuesday in a lawsuit filed on behalf of 30,000 poor Ecuadoreans who say the company's 20 years of drilling poisoned their homeland.
The case is the first time a multinational oil company has been subjected to Ecuadorean jurisdiction for allegedly damaging the environment in this small Andean nation, which depends on oil for its development.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ecuador; environment; latinamerica; oil; texaco
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posted on
10/22/2003 1:10:06 PM PDT
by
presidio9
To: Xenalyte
Is this one of your countrymen?
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posted on
10/22/2003 1:11:41 PM PDT
by
presidio9
(Countdown to 27 World Championships...)
To: presidio9
The case is the first time a multinational oil company has been subjected to Ecuadorean jurisdiction for allegedly damaging the environment in this small Andean nation, which depends on oil for its development. They need the oil to survive, yet they bitch about it?
Don't tell me. They support Howard Dean for US pres., right?
We live with this type of stuff daily here. We're forced to pay all the Democrats bills, yet they bitch we aren't doing good enough! Sheesh!
They should at least show some gratitude!
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posted on
10/22/2003 1:27:28 PM PDT
by
concerned about politics
( Have you donated to the Salvation Army? Liberals HATE Christian organizations! Tax deductable, too)
To: presidio9
Texaco needs to get in touch with legal at Occidental Petroleum. I think they won the recent suit against their drilling activities in, I believe, Bolivia. Seems the native people didn't want OPC on their turf for reasons of bad ju-ju or small leasing fees. Anyway, maybe Algore, the earth-saving, globalist diversity champion and erstwhile OPC board member can help with that.
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posted on
10/22/2003 1:47:14 PM PDT
by
WorkingClassFilth
(DEFUND NPR & PBS - THE AMERICAN PRAVDA)
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