Jun
5
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 […]
Jun
3
Anglo-French Oil Company Perenco Plans Amazon Invasion
Filed Under Indigenous Rights, Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes | 2 Comments
A group of Waorani Indians in Ecuador with blow pipes
( Note: At a time when oil is gushing unchecked into the Gulf of Mexico, despoiling one of the richest ecosystems in the Americas, another oil company, Perenco, moves closer to building an oil pipeline through one of the remotest areas of the Amazon, in northern […]