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Texaco, Inc. to force former well operator Texaco (acquired by Chevron Corporation in 2001) to clean up the area and provide for the care of the 30,000 inhabitants affected by oil contamination. In February 2011, an Ecuadorian court ordered Chevron to pay $8 billion in compensation.
Dec 18, 2022 · The $9.5 billion award he helped secure from an Ecuadorian court covered horrific pollution from oil production by Texaco (acquired by Chevron in 2001) that poisoned the rainforest with oil...
The plaintiffs say that the oil company knowingly dumped 18bn gallons (68bn litres) of toxic waste water and spilled 17m gallons of crude oil into the rainforest during its operations in...
TEXACO'S operation in Lago Agrio, where the company dumped toxic oil waste into the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest, is nowhere to be found among the top oil disas.
PDF | This is the story of an unequal legal battle. It's one that the communities affected by the operations of Texaco in Lago Agrio, Ecuador, have been... | Find, read and cite all the...
May 11, 2021 · For decades, Texaco (which later was acquired by Chevron ) drilled for oil in the Lago Agrio fields in Equador, polluting massive swaths of the Amazon basin. The duration, severity, and...
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By Joshua Bernard. Oil Pollution in the Texaco Oil Field in Lago Agrio, Ecuador (2007), Courtesy of Julien Gomba. 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.
