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The Black Curse, Toxic Ecuadorean Rainforest "Chernobyl" (27 images)

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Curse or blessing?
The Ecuadorian Amazon is suffering a public health crisis of immense proportions. The root cause of this crisis is water contamination from 40 years of oil operations.
On February 14 2011, a judge in Lago Agrio ruled that Chevron, now owner of Texaco, had to pay $9 billion in environmental damages for polluting the rainforest, in an unprecedented environmental ruling. The oil infrastructure developed and operated by Texaco had utterly inadequate environmental...
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