The Hunt for Black Gold Leaves a Stain in Ecuador. T. Christian Miller.
by Miller, T. Christian; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 43Environment. Publisher: Los Angeles Times, 2003ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Actions and defenses | ChevronTexaco Corporation | Ecuador -- Politics and government | Environmental degradation -- South America | Health risk assessment | Indigenous peoples -- Ecuador | Oil pollution of water | Petroleum industry and trade -- EcuadorDDC classification: 050 Summary: "When Texaco contractors showed up at Monica Torres' wood shack in the jungle, they said they had come to clean up the mess the company had left behind. A pool of black oil sludge sat like a tar pit in her backyard, dumped by the company years earlier while drilling nearby. Company contractors trundled in a bulldozer, covered the pit with dirt and told her that it was clean. But today [2003], nearly a decade later, black gunk still oozes from the weed-covered mound when it rains. Water from the family's main source, a nearby stream laced with paisley rainbows of petroleum residue, makes her children vomit. Torres suffers from severe headaches." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) This article discusses the "multibillion-dollar lawsuit alleging that Texaco's operations between 1972 and 1992 destroyed land, sickened residents and contributed to the demise of indigenous tribes" in Ecuador.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: The Hunt for Black Gold Leaves a Stain in Ecuador, Nov. 30, 2003; pp. A1+.
"When Texaco contractors showed up at Monica Torres' wood shack in the jungle, they said they had come to clean up the mess the company had left behind. A pool of black oil sludge sat like a tar pit in her backyard, dumped by the company years earlier while drilling nearby. Company contractors trundled in a bulldozer, covered the pit with dirt and told her that it was clean. But today [2003], nearly a decade later, black gunk still oozes from the weed-covered mound when it rains. Water from the family's main source, a nearby stream laced with paisley rainbows of petroleum residue, makes her children vomit. Torres suffers from severe headaches." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) This article discusses the "multibillion-dollar lawsuit alleging that Texaco's operations between 1972 and 1992 destroyed land, sickened residents and contributed to the demise of indigenous tribes" in Ecuador.
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