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Forbes – There’s no glitz or glamour in Lago Agrio, Ecuador

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November 23, 2009

“Led by a group of American lawyers, representing 48 plaintiffs, the Lago Agrio lawsuit attempts to apply the 1999 Environmental Management Act retroactively, issued one year after Texaco was granted a clean bill attesting that its remediation measures were successful. Ecuador’s Minister of Mines and Petroleum, and Petroecuador president, released Texaco from any further environmental liability in the future.

Incredibly, this legal outrage is backed by Correa, who joined Hollywood stars on a Toxic Tour. After his visit, he demanded Ecuador’s attorney general begin a criminal investigation against Texaco’s clean bill signatories.”
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Members of indigenous communities in the Amazon in Ecuador would like to know: What happened to the more than $20M reportedly raised on their behalf by now-disbarred NY lawyer Steven Donziger? #FollowtheMoney
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#Factsmatter: An international arbitration panel found ‘no cogent evidence’ supporting #Ecuador’s claim that #Texaco failed to comply with terms of remediation in #Amazon. https://t.co/7TqQ6sJhik

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The @WSJ sums this case up nicely, “[Steven Donziger] and his team fabricated evidence, promised $500,000 to an #Ecuadorean judge to rule in their favor, ghostwrote much of the final verdict and took other actions that ‘perverted’ the course of #justice. Mr. Donziger disputes the… https://t.co/soQ1qreULA

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Shameless. Disbarred and convicted of criminal contempt of court for bribing an Ecuadorian judge in an attempted extortion scheme, @SDonziger is nonetheless accepting invitations to speak at #climate rallies. Read more about this adjudicated racketeer: https://t.co/5eac0lRmN7

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Sworn testimony: While Texaco met its environmental obligations in the Amazon, #Ecuador’s national oil company did “absolutely nothing” to address its own remediation in the area. #FactsMatter:
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