A court in Canada has ruled Ecuadorean farmers and fishermen can try to
seize the assets of oil giant Chevron based on a 2011 decision in an
Ecuadorean court found it liable for nearly three decades of soil and
water pollution near oil wells, and said it had ruined the health and
livelihoods of people living in nearby areas of the Amazon rain forest.
Since then, the victims have been trying to collect some $18 billion in
environmental damages. But Chevron has filed its own lawsuit that argues
the verdict was won through fabrication of evidence and bribery. We
speak with Paul Barrett of Bloomberg Businessweek about how oil
corporations from Chevron to BP are fighting lawsuits brought against
them by attacking the lawyers handling the cases.
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