LOOK: On the Road with Ethos Alliance
- Posted by: Patrick James
- on November 16, 2009 at 5:44 pm
One of the worst environmental disasters in history, the “Amazon Chernobyl” refers to the roughly 17 million gallons of crude oil and the 18 billion gallons of toxic waste water that have leaked and spilled since Chevron-Texaco began excavating in the northeast region of Ecuador nearly three decades ago. For the region’s 30,000 indigenous residents, daily life is a humanitarian calamity, as tarnished water renders agriculture all but impossible, and chronic health problems are rampant and…
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