Q: Why did Texaco leave Equador?
A: Because they polluted the shit out of it.
A show on NHK or RGT T.V. or some other weird fucking hotel channel, had a very interesting story the other night. It said that cancer rates in Equador for an area that Texaco polluted were 147% higher than areas where Texaco wasn't (the rest of the country). 147% fuck that
Texaco spokes people claim there is no proven correlation between their waste and cancer. Really?! They did however let the native people keep farming the area. Good for them. The picture above shows what happened to their farms. Appalingly, Texaco also tried to make the locals believe the oil was actually good for their skin, because shampoo contains oil. Then they showed them a bottle of shampoo and said "see". The proof is in the details. Talk about smooth talkin'. To be fair - surprise, surprise - the government of Equador is also partially to blame. They really had no regulations in place to govern this practice of oil dumping. And, they wanted money.
In March, an Equadorean judge ruled for the plaintiffs, a group of concerned Equadoreans, in a suit that was filed. Texaco/Chevron could face around $18 billion in damages.
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