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BP Oil Catastrophe Mirrors Texaco-Chevron Amazon Disaster
Filed Under Ecuador, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Amazon Jungle | 2 Comments
A pool of oil in Lago Agrio, an Ecuadorean town in the Amazon where Texaco is accused of having dumped millions of gallons of contamination in local rivers and lakes in order to save the company money. Chevron later purchased Texaco, and has inherited Texaco’s legal troubles
Disaster in the Amazon
By Bob Herbert
June 4, 2010
BP’s calamitous […]