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Crude Impact: Oil Companies and Environment Video PDF Print E-mail
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Crude Impact
Crude Impact
Crude Impact: Oil Companies and the Environment Video (2min 50sec). The new feature-length documentary Crude Impact directed by James Wood examines how deeply our current existence relies on fossil fuels, and the cost that extracting oil has had on indigenous populations and the environment.

"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..."


Visit www.linktv.org to learn more about a live web chat about the film.

 
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