<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d8cdc6b3-0fd1-41a0-8e04-2a6121190a00/58AD4B74-6DC3-4069-AC1D-17F548F5720B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.alternet.org/action/142334/call_chevron_to_account_for_its_assault_on_the_amazonian_ecosystem/" href="http://www.alternet.org/action/142334/call_chevron_to_account_for_its_assault_on_the_amazonian_ecosystem/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.alternet.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/action/142334/call_chevron_to_account_for_its_assault_on_the_amazonian_ecosystem/"><P class="storyheadline">Call Chevron to Account for Its Assault on the Amazonian Ecosystem</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/action/142334/call_chevron_to_account_for_its_assault_on_the_amazonian_ecosystem/"><P class="storybyline"> <B> By <A title="View all stories by Byard Duncan" href="http://www.alternet.org/authors/10697/">Byard Duncan</A>, <A href="http://www.alternet.org">AlterNet</A>. Posted September 2, 2009.</B></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/action/142334/call_chevron_to_account_for_its_assault_on_the_amazonian_ecosystem/"><DIV class="teaserleft"> Over the past 28 years, the oil giant has polluted rivers, poisoned the atmosphere and caused immeasurable damage to children. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/action/142334/call_chevron_to_account_for_its_assault_on_the_amazonian_ecosystem/"><P>To say that <A href="http://www.chevron.com/?gclid=CKO21bTVzpwCFQRM5Qods1wuLg">Chevron</A> (formerly Texaco) has unleashed an environmental hell in the Ecuadorian Amazon would be a gruesome understatement.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/action/142334/call_chevron_to_account_for_its_assault_on_the_amazonian_ecosystem/"><P>Over the last 28 years, the company has dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxic formation waters into the Oriente, a river that about 30,000 native people depend on for bathing, drinking and cooking.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/action/142334/call_chevron_to_account_for_its_assault_on_the_amazonian_ecosystem/"><P>In 1995, Chevron vowed to "clean up" the mess it had made, but the actual effort was pathetic. Less than 1 percent of the 350 drilling sites it had opened were adequately dealt with, and most of the others were simply covered with a thin layer of dirt. Leftover crude byproducts were burned off into the atmosphere.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/58AD4B74-6DC3-4069-AC1D-17F548F5720B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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