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May 8, 2003, Thursday
Suit
Says ChevronTexaco Dumped Poisons in Ecuador

BY ABBY ELLIN
(NYT) 758 words
Late Edition
- Final , Section C , Page 8 , Column 1
ABSTRACT
- Group of American
lawyers representing more than 30,000 indigenous people in Ecuador
file $1 billion lawsuit against ChevronTexaco Corp; suit is filed
in Ecuador on behalf of 88 plaintiffs in Lago Agrio and asserts
that from 1971 to 1992, ChevronTexaco dumped over four million
gallons per day of toxic wastewater, contaminated with oil, heavy
metals and carcinogens into open pits and rivers; also says
company left behind nearly 350 open waste pits that killed people
and animals; ChevronTexaco denies any wrongdoing and maintains
that its practice was consistent with practices of Ecuador's
national oil company Petro Ecuador as well as internationally
recognized standards; case, in litigation for almost decade, has
been dismissed at four times; Amazon Watch, nonprofit
environmental group in San Francisco, plans to bring group of 13
indigenous leaders from Ecuador to ChevronTexaco's headquarters in
San Ramon, Calif; Amazon Watch representative Leila Salazar and
Chris Jochnick, lawyer and founder of Center for Economic and
Social Rights, comment; photo (M) A group of American lawyers
representing more than 30,000 indigenous people in Ecuador filed a
$1 billion lawsuit against the ChevronTexaco Corporation
yesterday.
The suit was filed in Ecuador on behalf of 88 plaintiffs in
Lago Agrio, a small oil town in northern Ecuador, and asserts that
during two decades of operation, from 1971 to 1992, ChevronTexaco
dumped over four million gallons a day of toxic wastewater,
contaminated with oil, heavy metals and carcinogens into open
pits, estuaries and rivers.
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2003 The New York Times Company
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