I think I might go live in Ecuador. Their president ROCKS: Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has denounced US oil giant Chevron as an ‘enemy of our country’, accusing it of trying to discredit the government amid a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit over Amazon pollution. Correa said Saturday that the company has spent $400 million and hired hundreds of lawyers to destroy the government’s credibility in an attempt to receive a ruling overturned on appeal in the country’s highest court. Chevron was ordered last year by an Ecuadoran court to pay $19 billion for polluting the Amazon rain forest. “We are going to tell Latin America what Chevron has done in our country to shirk its responsibility, with that criminal campaign that is waging against Ecuador,” said Correa. The Yasuni national park is home to several nomadic Indian tribes and holds an estimated 920 million barrels of oil in three wells. Oil is Ecuador’s main export product, as it produces 538,000 barrels of crude oil each day, of which half is delivered to the United States.
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 16:44:41 +0000
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