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According to some sources, the city was then called Source Lake, but was later changed to Lago Agrio (sour lake) because foreign oil workers suffered from long work days and strenuous working conditions.
The Lago Agrio field is known internationally for the serious ecological problems that oil development has created there, including water pollution, soil contamination, deforestation and cultural upheaval.
When a consortium of foreign multinationals discovered crude oil in Ecuador in the late 1960’s, Lago Agrio was among the first oil towns to be carved from the depths of the Amazon. Literally “Sour Lake” and also known as Nueva Loja, the sprawling municipality has become an unlikely target for international media attention. There ...
Nueva Loja is the official name for Lago Agrio. Loja has a rather sizable population of 26,000 people. The town came into existence largely due to the establishment of oil fields by the Texan oil company Texaco in the area. It was these Texans who saw fit to name the area after 'Sour Lake' in Texas and the name has since stuck.
Sep 17, 2018 · It formed a consortium with Gulf Oil to exploit the area around Nueva Loja, including Lago Agrio. Ecuador’s state oil company CEPE (now called PetroEcuador) bought a 25% share of this consortium in 1974 and then bought out Gulf Oil’s share, becoming by 1976 the majority partner.
Steve Donziger, representing UDAPT, spent two decades fighting the Lago Agrio case against Chevron-Texaco. In retaliation, Chevron-Texaco employed more than 60 law firms and 2,000 legal professionals to claim innocence and accuse Ecuadorian villagers of lying about the pollution’s impact.
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Mar 10, 2018 · In the end I choose the third option because it was the most direct, the least touristic and I was curious to see a city that bears an evocative name like Lago Agrio (the translation is Sour Lake, while the official name is the most “inviting” Nueva Loja, but no Ecuadorians uses the name Nueva Loja).
