28.09.2015 - 19:57 [ Truthout ]

Chevron May Yet Have to Pay Billions for Its Ecuadorian Catastrophe

After a biased New York judge blocked a ruling by an Ecuadorian court that Chevron must pay a $15 billion fine for, among other things, dumping 18 billion gallons of toxic waste into the Amazon‘s waterways, the Ecuadorians appealed to Canada‘s Supreme Court. On September 4, this court rejected Chevron‘s attempt to get the fine blocked there, too. The decision means that the lawsuit may proceed.