Oil Giant Texaco Goes on Trial in Ecuador

[SoCalDem]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=589&e=1&u=/ap/ecuador_oil_trial
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Tue Oct 21, 5:00 PM ET

Huaorani Indians protest in front of the Superior Court in the Amazonian town of Lago Agrio, Ecuador, at the start of a landmark trial where indigenous rainforest peoples are seeking to force ChevronTexaco to clean up the environmental contamination left behind from Texaco's oil drilling operations in the Ecuadorian Amazon, October 21, 2003. The court has the power to impose a multi-billion dollar judgement against ChevonTexaco that will be enforceable in U.S. courts, for the waste left from oil drilling that has had serious health ramifications for the Indians. REUTERS/str REUTERS

Oil Giant Texaco Goes on Trial in Ecuador
AP - Tue Oct 21, 9:56 PM ET
A decade after Texaco pulled out of the Amazon jungle, the U.S. petroleum giant went on trial Tuesday in a lawsuit filed on behalf of 30,000 poor Ecuadoreans who say the company's 20 years of drilling poisoned their homeland. Full Coverage

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Well this is an important case

and will determine whether Ecuador will hold the transnational
responsible or not.

One line of note... the we have confidence in the courts... yep
we have properly greased them skids... under that damn table...
Don't look now