Indigenous battle with oil corp
by Matthew
Crude is a new movie , just out in the UK, looking at the legal struggle over what’s been dubbed the ‘Amazon’s Chernobyl’ in Ecuador.
It tracks the dramatic case of Texaco’s ongoing battle to avoid payment for the cleanup of oil contamination of an area compared in size to the US state of Rhode Island.
The disaster is said to have enormously increased cancer, leukemia, birth defects and a multiplicity of other health ailments amongst indigenous peoples in the region.