Ecuador Indigenous Leaders Win Right to Fight Chevron For $12B
Ecuador Indigenous Leaders Win Right to Fight Chevron For $12B
Environmentalist Donald Moncayo tests polluted water in Lago Agrio. | Photo: Reuters
Published 21 January 2017
Indigenous residents of Lago Agrio have led a decades-long struggle against the oil corporation.
Ecuadorean Indigenous leaders have won the right to take Chevron to court in Canada for US$12 billion in company assets over environmental damages.
Justice Glenn Hainey of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled Friday that natives of the country’s Lago Agrio region “may proceed to trial” against the multinational oil giant, according to the Amazon Defense Coalition, ADC. The ruling allows Chevron to present only a limited number of defenses for its allegation that the lawsuit is fraudulent.
“We are now one big step closer to our goal in Canada of forcing Chevron to comply with the rule of law and be held accountable for its environmental crimes in Ecuador,” Lago Agrio native and ADC leader Carlos Guaman said in a statement.
Justice Glenn Hainey of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled Friday that natives of the country’s Lago Agrio region “may proceed to trial” against the multinational oil giant, according to the Amazon Defense Coalition, ADC. The ruling allows Chevron to present only a limited number of defenses for its allegation that the lawsuit is fraudulent.
“We are now one big step closer to our goal in Canada of forcing Chevron to comply with the rule of law and be held accountable for its environmental crimes in Ecuador,” Lago Agrio native and ADC leader Carlos Guaman said in a statement.
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