Ecuador exports a heavy sour crude called Napo and a medium-heavy, medium-sour crude called Oriente that is produced in the northeast of the country.
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According to the plaintiffs, there are nearly a thousand of these pits in the Oriente, scattered across an area the size of Rhode Island.
Since 1993, a group of Ecuadorans had been pursuing an apparently fruitless legal struggle to hold Texaco responsible for environmental destruction in the Oriente.
Produced water does not biodegrade, and when Donziger and his colleagues visited the Oriente they discovered that hundreds of oily pools pockmarked the rain forest.
He told me that the company has taken its own water samples in the Oriente, and has never identified a positive reading for hydrocarbon contamination.
And at Oriente, the exit station for the Expo site, artists from five continents were given their own space to create individual works with a linking maritime theme.
In the decade after Texaco began paving roads, a hundred thousand Ecuadoran settlers moved to the Oriente, lured by free acreage and the promise of work.
Dirigentes palestinos sostienen una nueva ronda de conversaciones en un intento de superar las discrepancias sobre el referendo del 26 de julio, mientras se recrudece la violencia en Medio Oriente.
But he relished the rigors of litigation in the sweltering Oriente, and, by virtue of his galvanic personality and his repeated visits, he gradually supplanted Bonifaz as the driving force in the case.
When the plaintiffs produced a study showing unusually high rates of cancer in the Oriente, Chevron countered with a study of its own, maintaining that cancer rates in the area are actually lower than elsewhere in Ecuador.
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