[bigbob]

There’s little doubt that Texaco inflicted harm on the people of the Oriente in the first decade or two of operations in Ecuador. But this damage was remediated to the satisfaction of Ecuadorian and international experts by the early 1990s, as stated in this article. But lawuers and greedy environmentalists hate to see the gravy train come to an end, and since 1992 this has become a massive shake-down of Chevron-Texaco on a scale that would make even Jesse Jackson blush.

Here is the definitive site for facts about Texaco in Ecuador: http://www.texaco.com/sitelets/ecuador/en/default.aspx

[rktman]

Thanks for the link.