By:
Carter Wood
02/14/11 10:29 PM
In the modern mainstream media world in which Big Oil is always the offender, the storyline was perfect. Impoverished and dying, native people from Ecuador sued Chevron — which is based in the Bay Area — to force the company to clean up the environmental catastrophe its oil operations had left in the Amazonian jungle. The $113 billion in damages would pay for compensation, health care and clean water.
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