Thursday, February 24, 2011

[EmergingEthnoNetwork] Chevron to pay for polluting Ecuadorean jungle



CARACAS, Venezuela — A judge in a tiny courtroom in the Ecuadorean Amazon ruled Monday that the oil giant Chevron was responsible for polluting remote tracts of Ecuadorean jungle and ordered the company to pay more than $9 billion in damages, one of the largest environmental awards ever.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/world/americas/15ecuador.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=Chevron+Ecuador&st=cse


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