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Ecuadorian Court Orders Chevron to Pay $8 Billion for Oil Damages, Company Vows to Fight

February 14, 2011 by Nathanael Baker
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In an epic environmental damages lawsuit involving the Ecuadorian people versus Chevron (NYSE: CVX), an Ecuadorian court has ruled in favour of the plaintiffs and ordered Chevron to pay a US$8 billion fine for contaminating the country's rainforest. The battle stems from exploratory oil drilling conducted  by Texaco in the... [read more]

CRUDE - directed by Joe Berlinger

January 27, 2010 by Anja Atkinson
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. Having been immersed in a world of intense consumption driven lifestyle for the last 60 years, we are now attempting to extricate our habitation on the planet from the carelessness pursuit of using everything on the planet to meet our needs. Sounds strangely like an addiction. We are making progress however. We may not directly be... [read more]

Sequester Oil Instead of CO2?

May 28, 2009 by Geoffrey Styles
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I've been following developments in carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) for more than a decade, so I was intrigued to run across a novel suggestion for an entirely different approach, involving the "sequestration" of undeveloped oil instead of the CO2 emitted by power plants and other industrial facilities. Even allowing for the... [read more]

Back from Ecuador

April 25, 2008 by MarkLazen
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Greetings all. I'm back from Ecuador, a land of mountains, jungles, islands and exotic animals like frigate birds, giant tortoises and--as I learned first hand--nasty intestinal parasites. Here's where you go when the parasites win!There's nothing like a jaunt through 2nd world cities and a 3rd world countryside to bring home the... [read more]