I recently came across this excellent documentary about the indiginous peoples of South Ecuador vs. ChevronTexaco in a intense judicial battle for ChevronTexaco to admit, and clean up the 18 billion litres of toxic byproducts of it's oil drilling in the area. They claimed to have dug special pits to put the toxic waste, but neglected to line the pits, so it all seeped into the surrounding soil and rivers polluting a vast area (the size of Rhode Island), which led to total devestation of plants, trees, animals, and humans living in the rainforest.


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This documentary is available from here

http://http.dvlabs.com/mofilms/Justicia640.mp4 It's about 110MB big, 30ish minutes long, and plays with QuickTime, or preferably VideoLan media Player.

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