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This 3-page paper analyzes a case study regarding Texaco and its land damaging activities to the rain forests of Ecuador. The paper examines the legalities of what Texaco is doing, and supports and takes a particular position.
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File: D0_MTtexecu.rtf
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this case study lets first examine some background. Ecuador is a small nation on the northwest coast of South America. During
its 173-year history, Ecuador has been one of the least politically stable South American nations. These days, decreases in public sector spending, increasing unemployment and rising inflation have hit
the Ecuadorian poor especially hard; with the World Bank estimating in 1994 that 35 percent of the Ecuadorian population lived in poverty, with an additional 17 vulnerable to poverty.
Another part of this country is the Ecuadorian Amazon is one of the most biologically diverse forests in the world, which is home
to endangered species and small populations, as well as indigenous Indian populations that fish, hunt and raise crops in the area. Finally,
Ecuador contains rich deposits of heavy grade crude oil, which the government considers the best way to maintain the countrys payments on its $12 billion foreign debt obligations. For twenty
years American oil companies, led by Texaco, extracted oil from beneath the Ecuadorean Amazon, constructing 400 drill sites and hundreds of miles of roads and pipelines to do so -
including a primary pipeline that extends 280 miles across the Andes. To build the roads, forests were cleared and Indian lands bulldozed, without compensation. In the village of Pacayacu the
central square is occupied by a drilling platform. In addition, the pipeline leaks oil - officials estimate that the primary pipeline has
spilled more than 16.8 million gallons of oil into the Amazon over an 18-year period. Smaller pipelines dump ten thousand gallons of petroleum a week into the Amazon, with the
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