Ecuadorean Groups Appeal to Increase $8.6 Billion Chevron Fine

Ecuadorian plaintiffs who won a US$8.6 billion dollar judgment against oil giant Chevron earlier this week for pollution of their Amazon homeland plan to appeal the ruling. They say the amount awarded is too low to compensate for the damages they suffered from 30 years of oil production by Texaco, since purchased by Chevron.
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Source: Enviroment News Service