On May 1, 2008, Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon and environmentalists donned hazmat suits and staged a major "clean-up operation" outside the global headquarters of Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) to urge the company to remediate a toxic disaster it created in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest.
In a dramatic face-to-face showdown at Chevron's annual general meeting, victims of the company's grave human rights abuses from three continents today told shareholders and senior executives that the oil major must live up to its corporate rhetoric on human rights and the environment, and also take decisive action to make amends to the...
The Ecuadorian government's offer to forgo oil development in the ITT portion of Yasuni would be a giant first step towards breaking Ecuador's dependence on oil. Ecologists and indigenous leaders in Ecuador join in formation to send a message to the World about Saving Yasuni Park.
The Shuar, Achuar, and Kichwa have denounced plans for oil extraction in Blocks 23 and 24 since the Ecuadorian government first awarded the concessions. Instead, they are calling for a plan to permanently protect the vast roadless rainforest region and promote sustainable development.
Between 1971 and 1991, Texaco extracted more than 1.5 billion barrels of oil from the Ecuadorian Amazon. In order to save millions of dollars, Texaco simply dumped the toxic wastes from its operations into the pristine rivers, forest streams and wetlands, ignoring industry standards.
