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Ecuadorians Fight for Justice in Landmark Chevron Trial
2013-11-04 23:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: American actor and activist Danny Glover arrived in Ecuador yesterday to visit an area of the Amazon rainforest were the multinational oil giant Chevron operated decades ago, and was sentenced by a local court to pay a multibillion-dollar fine for a massive environmental contamination, according to a CSR Wire press release. The actor will visit the former oil field Aguarico 4, in the northeastern province of Sucumbios. This oil field was operated exclusively by Texaco until it was abandoned in...
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