Amazon pollution: the stain on Ecuador's oil boom

In 2011, Ecuador's Supreme Court found in favor of the community and ordered the company to pay $9.5 billion in compensation for the pollution of native lands.

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Ecuadorean activist Donald Moncayo Jimenez (49) chief coordinator of the Union of People Affected by Texaco (UDAPT) stands next to a "mechero" (gas flare) from the refinery operated by Petroecuador.

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Lago Agrio is where it began in February 1967: Ecuador's first oil well drilled by the US Texaco-Gulf consortium

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