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Three leading female environmental and human rights advocates – Congresswoman Linda Sanchez (D-CA), Trudie Styler, co-founder of the Rainforest Foundation with husband Sting, and Kerry Kennedy, President of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights – have issued independent calls for Chevron to clean up the company’s Ecuador environmental disaster on the eve of a court judgment where the oil giant faces a potential $27 billion liability. Styler received sustained applause from hundreds of diplomats in the U.N. General Assembly after a stirring speech on climate change in which she singled out Chevron’s Ecuador problem as an example of how irresponsible behavior can devastate the environment and contribute to global warming.
Source: The Amazon Defense Coalition Speaking Nov. 19 in support of the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference, Styler accused Chevron of destroying what was once a “paradise on Earth” in Ecuador by employing drilling practices which had been outlawed in the United States since the 1930s. Styler, who has partnered with UNICEF to deliver clean water to the Amazon communities, was accompanied on the dais by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
“That region [of Ecuador where Chevron operated] is now described by independent assessors as one of the most contaminated industrial sites in the world,” Styler said. “On my visits to the region, I have spoken to mothers who know that the water they give their children to drink is poisoned but they've simply had no choice.
“I met Maria Garafolo, a 38-year-old mother, who has cancer of the uterus. Her 18-year-old daughter, Sylvia, has cancer of the liver. They showed me the stream where they collect their water. It stinks of petroleum. Nothing grows there. The animals they rear to sell at market die in the toxic environment.”
Source: The Amazon Defense Coalition
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