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Chevron Wins Latest Round in Ecuador Pollution Case

2014-03-05 01:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press Service: In the latest twist in a 21-year-old environmental pollution case, a U.S. federal judge Tuesday ruled that the victims of massive oil spillage and their U.S. attorney could not collect on a nine-billion-dollar judgement by Ecuador's supreme court against the Chevron Corporation. In a racketeering case brought by the U.S. oil giant, the judge found that the lawyer, Steven Donziger, and his associates had used bribery and falsified evidence to prevail against Chevron in Ecuador's courts and thus...

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Chevron wins Ecuador payout ruling

2014-03-04 20:34:40| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Oil giant Chevron wins a US court ruling against a $9.5bn (5.7bn) payout to residents of Ecuador's Amazon region.

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Spirits Market in Ecuador: Databook to 2017

2014-02-27 01:00:00| Beverage industry market research - from just-drinks.com

Synopsis "Spirits Market in Ecuador: Databook to 2017" is the result of Canadean's extensive market research covering the Spirits market in Ecuador. The report presents detailed historic and forecast

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In Ecuador, Oil Boom Creates Tension

2014-02-17 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Washington Post: In YAWEPARE, Ecuador -- An oil pipeline runs through this village to a Chinese rig at the end of the road. At night, when the rig is pumping, the pipeline is too hot to touch, but villagers say that in the morning, it's a good place to dry laundry. That is its only apparent benefit to the families here, members of the Waorani tribe, lured out of the jungle by missionaries more than a generation ago. Its members live in plank-board shacks with no running water, amid the noise and dust of...

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