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The outcome of the class action case taken by Ecuadorian Amazon landholders (indigenous and non-indigenous) against a multinational company, Chevron, Aguinda v. Texaco, Inc., beginning in 1993, and Chevron's response, provides an example of the shortcomings of international law as an instrument to prevent environmental degradation and to protect indigenous and community rights. Texaco (later bought out by Chevron), who were in control of the day-to-day management of oil wells in the Lago Agrio-Nueva Loja region of the Ecuadorian Amazon between 1972 and 1992, were allegedly responsible for the worst oil spill in the history of the world to date-the "Amazon Chernobyl"-estimated to be 80 times larger than the 134 million gallon BP Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 (Zaitchik 2014; Ofrias 2017a; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 2020) (Fig. 5.1). In the area around Lago Agrio (see Fig. 5.1), 13-16 million gallons of oil and 18-19.3 billion gallons of waste and toxic substances were allegedly dumped into unlined pits and directly into rivers and streams between 1972 and 1992(Kimerling 2006;;San Sebastian and Hurtig

Author

Linda Etchart

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030815189

Subjects

History, Nature, Science