Published on Sep 24, 2013
Ecuador's
Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño discusses his government's involvement
in two closely watched environmental legal battles. An Ecuadorean court
has ordered the oil giant Chevron to pay $19 billion to indigenous and
rural Ecuadoreans for the dumping of as much as 18.5 billion gallons of
highly toxic waste sludge into the rainforest. But Chevron has refused,
winning a partial victory last week when an international arbitration
panel based in the Hague delivered an interim ruling questioning the
validity of the original 2011 verdict.
Ecuador Takes on Chevron, Global Indifference in Controversial Fights to Protect Rainforest
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Ricardo Patiño, Ecuador’s Foreign Minister.
During
a visit to New York City for the United Nations General Assembly,
Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño joins us to discuss his
government’s involvement in two closely watched environmental legal
battles. An Ecuadorean court has ordered the oil giant Chevron to pay
$19 billion to indigenous and rural Ecuadoreans for the dumping of as
much as 18.5 billion gallons of highly toxic waste sludge into the
rainforest. But Chevron has refused, winning a partial victory last
week when an international arbitration panel based in the Hague
delivered an interim ruling questioning the validity of the original
2011 verdict. Patiño also addresses why Ecuador recently dropped a plan
to preserve swaths of the Amazon rainforest from oil drilling by having
wealthy countries pay them not to drill, an effort that the Ecuadorean
government says failed to attract sufficient funding. Leading
environmentalists, including Vandana Shiva, Naomi Klein and James
Hansen, recently wrote an open letter to President Rafael Correa asking
him not to forsake the initiative, saying: "Along with thousands of
other world citizens, we look to the Yasuní-ITT
initiative as a pioneering step in the international struggle for a
post-fossil-fuel civilization. We have been inspired by the
determination of the Ecuadorean public to rejuvenate the initiative
following your government’s recent decision to abandon it."
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