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Venezuelans stage protest following oil spill.
Hundreds of protesters blocked streets and burned tires in eastern Venezuela on Wednesday to demand clean water after a recent oil spill polluted rivers and streams that supply local storage tanks.
“We have not had water for a week,” said Maria Rodriguez, an angry 26-year-old housewife who joined the protest in the city of Maturin. “We don’t have water to cook and bathe, and we don’t have the money needed to buy bottled water everyday.”
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“I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us. ” - Chris Cleave, Little Bee
This novel is beautifully written and absolutely worth reading. At times it is heart-wrenching and violently graphic; at others it is humorous and hopeful. Little Bee tells the story of a Nigerian immigrant seeking asylum in the UK from oil conflicts in her homeland. As the story builds, the character dynamics pull you in and I promise you’ll finish the novel in just a few days.
Chevron Must Pay $18 Billion to Indigenous Ecuadorans: Court Upholds Largest Environmental Verdict Ever
AmazonWatch: Yesterday, an Ecuadorian appellate court upheld a historic $18 billion award against Chevron for the company’s deliberate contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon. The decision is the largest environmental award ever handed down and the result of an 18-year legal battle brought by some 30,000 indigenous peoples and farmers seeking a clean up of contaminated sites, clean drinking water, and health care.
For more information, see the excellent 2009 documentary, Crude: The Real Price of Oil
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