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"The diminutive grandmother whose modest home sits near marshes clogged for decades in sticky oil has..."

via Liquor&Spice on 2/26/11

"The diminutive grandmother whose modest home sits near marshes clogged for decades in sticky oil has been at the heart of the David-and-Goliath case, and spoke out after Chevron was slapped last week with a $9.5-billion fine, among the heaviest ever handed down for environmental damage. "Before I die they have to pay me for the dead animals, and for what they did to the river, and the water and the earth," the 61-year-old Aguinda told AFP at her home in Rumipamba, a town in remote Orellana province where pollution caused by 30 years of oil drilling and petroleum accidents had become a sad fact of life."

- Indigenous Ecuadoran woman humbles US oil giant - Yahoo! News (via thischickdoesit)

 

 

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