On Monday, a court in Ecuador told Chevron it owes $8 billion for environmental contamination in the Amazon. Chevron is calling the decision “illegitimate and unenforceable.”
This is Ecuador, where oil companies wield economic power and political influence. Yet, this didn’t cloud the court’s independent eye when faced with the facts of uncovered toxic waste pits in the pristine Amazon.
This is Chevron, a private, American corporation. Yet this didn’t stop the Ecuadorian court from making Chevron, a foreign company, pay for 26 years of environmental damage in Ecuador.
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