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Ecuador Amazon Tribe Win First Victory Against Oil Companies

Matias Prieto — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 20:41:58 +0000

Ecuador’s Waorani indigenous tribe won their first victory against big oil companies in a ruling that blocks the companies’ entry onto ancestral Amazonian lands for oil exploration activities. After two weeks of deliberations, a criminal court in Puyo, central Ecuador, accepted a Waorani bid for court protection in Pastaza province to stop an oil bidding process after […]

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Perversion of Justice – Chevron vs Ecuador

Benji Jerew — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:21:46 +0000

After decades of contamination, caused by Texaco (later bought by Chevron) extracting petroleum from beneath Ecuador’s rain forests, a judge in Ecuador rules against Chevron to the tune of $18 billion. On behalf of some 30,000 residents, whose lands are now, twenty years later, contaminated, a juryless court ruled against Chevron, who bought Texaco after […]

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Addressing Climate Change – The Great Hypocrisy

Benji Jerew — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 19:45:14 +0000

Now that we’ve had a chance to consider IPCC AR5, that is, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report, there’s one clear conclusion, we must stop use of fossil fuels. Of course, the question arises, “Who’s going to pay for all this?” In spite of political posturing, regarding how world governments […]

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