to the company chevron took over in two thousand and one the plaintiffs include indigenous tribes from the amazon rain forest who filed a class action lawsuit twenty five years ago now the highest court in ecuador has ruled in their favor. their home was once a dense jungle us oil company texaco arrived in the one nine hundred sixty s. now not much clothes here anymore the affected area is four times larger than new york the soil is contaminated there s oil search everywhere and cancer rates are above average. some see the ruling as largely symbolic and say enforcing the decision won t be easy the environmental damage relates to oil operations blamed on texaco that took place between one thousand nine hundred sixty four and one thousand nine hundred meaning it ended more than a decade before chevron acquired the firm. nothing because you have all the
ruled in their favor. their home was once a dense jungle us oil company texaco arrived in the one nine hundred sixty s. now not much grows here anymore the affected area is four times larger than new york the soil is contaminated there s a search everywhere and cancer rates are above average. some see the ruling as largely symbolic and say enforcing the decision won t be easy the environmental damage relates to oil operations blamed on texaco that took place between one thousand nine hundred sixty four and one thousand nine hundred meaning it ended more than a decade before chevron acquired the firm. the judgment isn t just against chevron it s against the system of corporate and community rules the entire planet it s against the global corporate client it s a sentence that sets a great global priester that antigens people s together are capable of accessing justice if you. got
texaco never again i reference to the company chevron took over in two thousand and one the plaintiffs include indigenous tribes from the amazon rain forest who filed a class action lawsuit twenty five years ago now the highest court in ecuador has ruled in their favor. their home was once a dense jungle us oil company texaco arrived in the one nine hundred sixty s. now not much clothes here anymore the affected area is four times larger than new york the soil is contamination there s oil everywhere and cancer rates are above average. some see the ruling as largely symbolic and say enforcing the decision won t be easy the environmental damage relates to oil operations blamed on texaco that took place between one thousand nine hundred sixty four and one thousand nine hundred meaning it ended more than a decade before chevron acquired the firm. all the