Success! Chevron Ordered to Pay $19 Billion for Environmental Damage:

Success! Chevron ordered to pay $19B for environmental damage | Care2 Causes

care2.com 28 Jul '12, 3am

Success! Chevron Ordered to Pay $19 Billion for Environmental Damage:

Thanks to your actions, Care2 members, we celebrated a major victory in Ecuador this week. Chevron has been ordered by an Ecuadorian court to pay more than $19 billion in environmental damages, $1 billion more than originally decided, after an Ecuadorian court adjusted the amount on appeal. Over the course of 26 years of oil drilling in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, U.S. oil giant Chevron deliberately dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into the rainforest. The contamination devastated the homes of some 30,000 indigenous people and large areas of the rainforest, leaving local people suffering a wave of cancers, miscarriages and birth defects. In spite of the tremendous suffering caused by this toxic pollution, Chevron refused to clean up the catastrophe. It has taken years of litigation to hold Chevron accountable and force them to compensate the victims...

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@keithpp » 01 Aug '12, 12pm
RT @AirportWatch: Chevron Ordered to Pay $19 Billion for Environmental Damage - after years of litigation and Care2 campaign. [link]
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@PermaGoddess » 01 Aug '12, 7am
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This time it was Chevron's turn to pollute. 18bn gallons of contaminated waste water into Amazon: [link] #fossilfuels
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RT @MsCastan: RT @Wendy_Bacon: Great win for indigenous Ecuadoreans. Ct orders #Chevron pay $19 billion for damage to #environment. [link]
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Success! Chevron Ordered to Pay $19 Billion for Environmental Damage [link] But will they pay out the money??
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Success! Chevron Ordered to Pay $19 Billion for Environmental Damage: This is a huge success for the environment... [link]