Call on ChevronTexaco to Address the Human Rights of Amazon Communities For over four decades, Indigenous communities have witnessed multinational oil companies cut through their ancestral lands in search of the country's vast petroleum resources. According to the report ''Amazon Crude'' by Judith Kimerling, from 1972 until it left Ecuador in 1992, Texaco intentionally dumped more than 19 billion gallons of toxic wastewaters into the region and was responsible for 16.8 million gallons of crude oil spilling from the main pipeline into the forest. The report alleges that these actions contaminated both the soil and the groundwater of the communities in the area and will continue to threaten the economic and cultural bases of Indigenous peoples' survival. Send a message to the Board of Directors of ChevronTexaco that the company must take responsibility for its actions. To learn more about ChevronTexaco in Ecuador, read Oil Rights or Human Rights? Check out our Ecuador Action Update to learn how Amnesty is making a difference. Get more information about corporate accountability for human rights and join the Corporate Action Network. |