For many years now there has been a political battle raging between the political pressure group the "Plaintiffs" and the US gaint petrolium company Texaco, who are now owned by Chevron. The agrument stems from a cause over 16 years ago, when Texaco used to drill for oil in the Equadorian Amazon. They were in partnership with the local petrolium company Petroequador, but were the consortium leader, which meant that they were responisible for the oil drilling taking place, even though they only actually drilled 40% of the oil. The plaintiff group claim that 
Texaco poisened parts of the amazon and caused cancer rates to rise greatly in certain highly affected areas of the country, with some areas suffering as many as 8 different strains of cancer. These claims that are made are very immotive and so, i find it hard to produce a fair argument. The main problem that the Plaintiffs are concerned with is the existance of open pits, where the production water is dumped. This production water is often full of many deadly chemicals. Texaco themselves feel that they have dealt with the problem by saying that they dealt with their pits and paid a sum of 40 million dollars. Now that they have paid that, they feel that the responsibility lays with their old partner company Petroequador. Texaco feel that the Plaintiffs are not playing fair, and withholding info from the court in equador and also not producing equal ammounts of data. Futher more the claims that have been made about the remediation costing over $6 billion are ludicrous says Texaco. This sum is to cover cleaning up all areas affected and compensating everyone who has been affected by cancer or any other disease caused by the mal treatment of oil on Texacos front. Texaco disagree that there has been any notable cancer or chronic illness effect on the population, however their data collection methods may be questionable, as they have conducted them in such a way that any cancer cases in isolated areas are diluted by that of the whole region. Texaco claim that any adverse health effects are the cause of bad hygene and nutrition in poorer areas of Equador. This court case is still ongoing, but is set to finish soon at in Equador, both parties will be wishing for their result. I hope from this data you can make a fair desicision on what you feel is right. I personally feel it is very hard to be sympathetic towards Texaco, as although they may not be fully "responsible" i still feel that they act quite heartlessly in the matter.
Texaco poisened parts of the amazon and caused cancer rates to rise greatly in certain highly affected areas of the country, with some areas suffering as many as 8 different strains of cancer. These claims that are made are very immotive and so, i find it hard to produce a fair argument. The main problem that the Plaintiffs are concerned with is the existance of open pits, where the production water is dumped. This production water is often full of many deadly chemicals. Texaco themselves feel that they have dealt with the problem by saying that they dealt with their pits and paid a sum of 40 million dollars. Now that they have paid that, they feel that the responsibility lays with their old partner company Petroequador. Texaco feel that the Plaintiffs are not playing fair, and withholding info from the court in equador and also not producing equal ammounts of data. Futher more the claims that have been made about the remediation costing over $6 billion are ludicrous says Texaco. This sum is to cover cleaning up all areas affected and compensating everyone who has been affected by cancer or any other disease caused by the mal treatment of oil on Texacos front. Texaco disagree that there has been any notable cancer or chronic illness effect on the population, however their data collection methods may be questionable, as they have conducted them in such a way that any cancer cases in isolated areas are diluted by that of the whole region. Texaco claim that any adverse health effects are the cause of bad hygene and nutrition in poorer areas of Equador. This court case is still ongoing, but is set to finish soon at in Equador, both parties will be wishing for their result. I hope from this data you can make a fair desicision on what you feel is right. I personally feel it is very hard to be sympathetic towards Texaco, as although they may not be fully "responsible" i still feel that they act quite heartlessly in the matter. 