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Crude Impact: Oil Companies and Environment Video |
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Contributed by J. R. Ransom
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 Crude Impact "When Texaco entered Ecuador in the mid-1960s, Ecuador had never drilled for oil. Texaco was the first company to come in and develop oil-drilling infrastructure. Their executive made what turned out to be a very fateful decision.
They decided to use practices that they were not using in the United States, that were substandard industry-wide at that time around the world. One is they decided to dump toxic water formation right into the rain forest environment instead of re-injecting it thousands of feet underground like they were doing in other countries..."
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