Posted @withregram • @amazonwatch Ten years ago, Indigenous and farmer communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon beat @Chevron in Ecuador's highest court for the deliberate pollution of the Amazon. But, the company has never paid a dime for its admitted crime. How? The answer: Systemic environmental racism. The case was based mostly on Chevron's own scientific samples and over 200,000 pages of evidence. A judge in Ecuador ruled that Chevron must pay $9.5 billion for environmental remediation and to alleviate the health crisis it created from the 16 billion gallons of toxic waste dumped into the Amazon. But Chevron refused to pay and the U.S. judicial system is also eager to deny access to justice to people harmed in other countries by the deliberate acts of a U.S. corporation. The latest example is Chevron’s refinery in Richmond, Ca oil spill this week into the SF Bay. If Chevron pays in Ecuador, it would have to pay everywhere else. This week’s special #EyeOnTheAmazon delves deep into a decade long struggle to hold Chevron to account. Go read at the link in bio. #ChevronGuilty #Pollution #OilSpill #KeepItInTheGround #Ecuador #IndigenousRights #AmazonRainforest #Environment #ClimateJustice https://www.instagram.com/p/CLOZYsxA0mx/?igshid=1whspsr1dja09
