thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 2月6日 04時41分

Photograph by @remibenali, from a story made for Vanity Fair @Vanity Fair.
Photographed in front of the Guanta oil rig in Ecuador, Chief Robinson - one of the leaders of the Cofan Indians and a strong activist in a law suit against Texaco/Chevron - argues that the oil production has contaminated the river nearby as well as members of his community who live down stream and several other parts of the region. He feels that « the oil has only brought catastrophe here. We, the Cofan, are unanimous and determined to protect what is left of the forest. All of Mankind needs it. » January 23rd 2015 in Davos, Switzerland, prominent Swiss environmental organizations have crowned Chevron with an embarrassing "lifetime achievement" award for dumping billions of gallons of toxic waste into streams and rivers in Ecuador's rainforest relied on by local indigenous communities for their water. The Public Eye Award which seeks to highlight the world's worst corporations. In 2006, Chevron took home its first Public Eye prize for deliberately dumping more than 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into Ecuador's rainforest waterways and leaving behind some 900 unlined waste pits filled with toxic sludge. Chevron operated in Ecuador from 1964 to 1992 under the Texaco brand. It abandoned the country without remediating the pollution that even its own internal audits concluded it caused. Five indigenous groups have seen their traditional cultures decimated because of Chevron's dumping practices, according to evidence presented to an Ecuadorian court. The court found Chevron liable in 2011 and imposed a $9.5 billion damages compensation that Chevron refused to pay. Its lead lawyer has vowed that the company would fight the judgment "until hell freezes over, and then we'll fight it out on the ice." (source @amazonwatch). I will post more images of this ecologic failure on my feed in the future. @Vanity Fair @amazonwatch
#ecuador #amazonia #amazonianforest #lagoagrio #environmentalism #environmentalissue #oilpollution #pollution #texaco #chevron #nativeamericans #tribalcultures #cofan #photographepro #spiritoftheforest

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