The Texaco Scandal / No Toxic EU
Chevron (that time under the name Texaco) has deliberately spilt millions of liters of toxic waste from oil production into rivers and lakes in Ecuador instead of reverting the toxic waste into the ground as this was state of the art when Texaco was drilling. Many of the indigenous people living there have fallen ill and died of cancer or due to the polluted water. A Chevron official about the verdict against Chevron: “We will fight this until hell freezes over, and then fight it out on the ice.”. The leading attorney in the verdict against Chevron, Steven Donziger has now been illegally put under house arrest for the past year since Chevron sued back in New York.
— another completely independent petition for the EU