The most gut-wrenching sequence among many such presented in Crude, Joe Berlinger's documentary about the results of industrial oil extraction in the Ecuadorian rainforest, involves a duck. Standing in for nuclear despoilment... [read full story]
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Daughter of RFK Appalled by ”Chevron's Chernobyl” The massive oil contamination for which Chevron faces a potential $27 billion liability in Ecuador's courts is a ”clear violation” of the rights of indigenous peoples to life,...
QUITO, Ecuador - The massive oil contamination for which Chevron faces a potential $27 billion liability in Ecuador’s courts is a “clear violation” of the rights of indigenous peoples to life, security, and self-determination,...
Traces of paradise are still visible. Between 1964 and 1990, Texaco (which was acquired by Chevron in 2001) drilled roughly 350 wells across 2,700 square miles of Amazon rainforest. In the process, Texaco constructed over 900...
The story began almost 40 years ago, but when filmmaker Joe Berlinger "saw villagers eating canned tuna fish because the fish in their rivers were too contaminated to eat, [he] knew [he] had to do something". The product of...
Rafael Correa Delgado, Trudie Styler, Mining, Energy, Oil & Gas Exploration & Extraction, Judiciary & Lawsuits, Aflac, Texaco, Chevron, Kiev Oblast (Ukraine), South America, Ukraine, Ecuador, Chernobyl
