Texaco in Ecuador

[Phalanx]

I just saw a documentary on CBC about Ecuador and the oil companies that had been there from 1971-1992. It was basically saying how Texaco put toxic waste in open air pits without lining. Now, indiginous people are suffering from cancer (which doubled since the first open air pit was created) and other diseases directly caused by the oil companies' carelessness towards the land and its people. I think now the groups are fighting back against Texaco, but realistically, I don't think a 6 billion dollar loss would affect them that much.

Capitalists should be executed after the revolution.

[viva le revolution]

To quote a famous line " capitalists will sell us the rope we use to hang them"

[praxis1966]

It's for similar reasons (the abuse of local village people at the hands of various armies who use the funds to buy weapons) that my girlfriend and I have decided that she won't be getting a diamond engagement ring. We've instead decided on a peridot, since we were both born in August.

[Oglaigh na hEireann]

The capitalists have already throwin in the towel for Earth. The material life has drained our planet of its biological diversity and dexterity. Now, as the affects of consumerism consum the earth itself, we only seem to become more and more entranced by this style of life.



-Sean

[Colombia]

What I find sad is that regions that have developed these hazards, have threatened to secede but no one in Ecuador bothers to listen.

[Rasta Sapian]

I have read a book which studies the ongoing conflict between the oil companies opperating in Ecuador, the land native to the indigenous tribes, the Quenchias, and the Huoarani peoples.

The countries government is completely sold out to the big companies. The Oriente is being drilled to death, and the local rivers and rainforest are being exploited and poisoned.

The novel "Savages"; author Joe Kane lived in the Oriente with the indigenous people, and has aided in there international legal right to protect thier land on which they need to sustain a natural hunter gatherer lifestyle.

There are many environmental organizations already involved, WWF, unesco fund, Sierra Club, etc.

If you want a first hand account of what is happening from the 90's you should read the novel.

p.s. there are many other oil companies from all over the world with there drills in Ecuador!

[praxis1966]

Don't take this as a criticism Rasta, I'm only asking since you seem to know a bit more about the situation than I do. Where are all of these activists groups when it comes to Ireland? Recently, at the behest of Shell and Statoil five residents from the remote Irish town of Rossport have been jailed for refusing to give up their land and livelihoods. The companies are on a joint venture to extract natural gas from Irish waters, and claim they need the land for a pipeline. The gas is estimated to be worth in excess of $20 billion, of which the Irish people will see exactly nil.

The scary part is that they plan to pipe the unrefined gas in and process it on land via the pipeline instead of at sea, a technology as of yet that has not been proven to be safe. The regulations surrounding this sort of thing were changed illegally after oil officials met with top level ministers of the Fianna Fail government. What's worse is that Statoil is owned by the Norwegian government, which up to now (at least I thought) didn't do this sort of thing. I ask again, where the fuck are Greenpeace et al?

[Toussaint]

Capitalists should be executed after the revolution.
After? :D

The oil companies in Ecuador and the war in Colombia, the threats against the bolivarian Venezuela are part of one process, of the same nature than what is happening in Irak and Palestina, reconquest of the Southern countries to control their natural resources. This is the reason for the building of new giant US Air Bases, in Ecuador and soon in Paraguay. Just a mater of looking at a map, you get the picture...

[Lacrimi de Chiciură]

I thought Texaco got bought by some other company?

[Seeker]

Similar happenings are going on around the globe. Nigerian farmers are being gunned down by Shell's mercenaries, Eskimos are being forced off their land at gunpoint in Alaska to make way for oil drills, pipes, and refineries, and coal miners in China are being worked to death in hazardous conditions that their wagemasters can't be bothered to make safer . . .

Energy is a dirty business in many ways.






Texaco is owned by Chevron who also has Directors who sit on the boards for Hewlett-Packard, Time-Warner, Coca-Cola, AIG, International Paper, General Electric, Lucent Technologies, Cigna, and Dell Computer.

To get an idea of just how tangled and incestuous a web we weave, see http://www.theyrule.net/

[praxis1966]

Eskimos are being forced off their land...
Dude, don't call them Eskimos; it's derrogatory. It's the equivalent of calling an African-American the n-word. The appropriate term is Inuit.

[Seeker]

Please excuse my ignorange. I apologize.

[praxis1966]

Hey, I wasn't getting on your case. Most people don't realize what the word means. I was just trying to be helpful.

[Seeker]

I agree that it is somthing important to know.

[Urban Guerrilla]

Originally posted by [email protected] 23 2005, 05:14 AM

Eskimos are being forced off their land...
Dude, don't call them Eskimos; it's derrogatory. It's the equivalent of calling an African-American the n-word. The appropriate term is Inuit.
Shit, when was this? Teachers and textbooks called them "Eskimos", and I didn't know it was a racist statement :che:

[praxis1966]

It's sort of the same thing as a hundred years ago when the n-word was the appropriate name for African-Americans. Most people don't know about the Inuit thing because it's really only documentarians and TV producers, not textbook authors, who have caught on.