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Indigenous groups win right to pursue Chevron assets in Canada in Amazon pollution case
2013-12-20 00:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Indigenous plaintiffs in a long-running legal dispute against Chevron won the right to pursue the oil giant's assets in Canada as part of a $9.5 billion judgement by an Ecuadorean court over damages in the Amazon, reports Amazon Watch. On Tuesday Ontario's Court of Appeal ruled that 47 Ecuadorean plaintiffs can proceed with an effort to seize Chevron's Canadian assets. The decision reversed an earlier ruling that the oil company didn't have any assets in Canada. In the ruling, the three judge...
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