A court in Toronto will soon begin deliberating over whether or not to seize Chevron’s Canadian assets in order to force the company to comply with an $9.5-billion judgement in Ecuador.
The company doesn’t deny that Texaco, which Chevron bought in 2000, deliberately dumped billions of gallons of toxic oil waste in the Ecuadorian Amazon, resulting in massive environmental devastation and a health crisis affecting thousands of people. But the company claims it did its part to clean up the rainforest.
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