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Corporate Irresponsibility or Government Interference? The Chevron-Petroecuador Fiasco

By Eliot Brockner | Published: September 28, 2008
The images are enough to make even a non-environmentalist cringe. Lush rain forest coated in black, dredge-filled lakes, and rivers of oil make up a Rhode-Island size portion of the Ecuadorian rain forest in Sucumbíos state. The controversy of who is to blame has lasted since Chevron’s departure from Ecuador. Chevron (then Texaco) operated in the [...]
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