TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fajardo,Pablo
AU  - Chute,Hannah
AU  - Roudeau,Damien
AU  - Tardy-Joubert,Sophie
TI  - Crude: A Memoir 
SN  - 9781637790120
AV  - TD195.P4 
U1  - 363.738/209866412 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - University Park, PA
PB  - Penn State University Press
KW  - Indians of South America
KW  - Ecuador
KW  - Oriente
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - Liability for oil pollution damages
KW  - Oil spills
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Petroleum industry and trade
KW  - Petroleum waste
KW  - COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Chevron Corporation
KW  - Cristóbal Bonifaz
KW  - Ecuador Supreme Court
KW  - Ecuadorian Amazon
KW  - LagoAgriooil field
KW  - Pablo Fajardo
KW  - StevenDonziger
KW  - UDAPT
KW  - deforestation
KW  - environmental justice
KW  - indigenous rights
KW  - litigation
KW  - remediation
KW  - soil contamination
KW  - water pollution
N1  - Frontmatter --; Never Give Up --; Crude. A Memoir --; An Emblematic Case --; Timeline --; Where Are They Now? --; A Global Suit --; Resources; restricted access
N2  - Oil waste was everywhere—on the roads, in the rivers where they fished, and in the water that they used for bathing, cooking, and washing. Children became sick and died, cases of stomach cancer skyrocketed, and women miscarried or gave birth to children with congenital disorders. The American oil company Texaco—now part of Chevron—extracted its first barrel of crude oil from Amazonian Ecuador in 1972. It left behind millions of gallons of spilled oil and more than eighteen million gallons of toxic waste.In Crude, Ecuadorian lawyer and activist Pablo Fajardo gives a firsthand account of Texaco’s involvement in the Amazon as well as the ensuing legal battles between the oil company, the Ecuadorian government, and the region’s inhabitants. As a teenager, Fajardo worked in the Amazonian oil fields, where he witnessed the consequences of Texaco/Chevron’s indifference to the environment and to the inhabitants of the Amazon. Fajardo mobilized with his peers to seek reparations and in time became the lead counsel for UDAPT (Union of People Affected by Texaco), a group of more than thirty thousand small farmers and indigenous people from the northern Ecuadorian Amazon who continue to fight for reparations and remediation to this day.Eye-opening and galvanizing, Crude brings to light one of the least well-known but most important cases of environmental and racial injustice of our time
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781637790120?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781637790120
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781637790120/original
ER  -