All entries for Tuesday 09 February 2010

Diary of a Permaculturalist 18: Avaaz vs. the Amazon (Jungle)

Follow-up to Diary of a Permaculturalist 17: Palm Oil from George Ttoouli, Warwick Writing Programme

Avaaz have set their sights on rallying people again oil company Chevron. Sign the petition here.

Oil giant Chevron is facing defeat in a lawsuit by the people of the Ecuadorian Amazon, seeking redress for its dumping billions of gallons of poisonous waste in the rainforest.

But the oil multinational has launched a last-ditch, dirty lobbying effort to derail the people’s case for holding polluters to account.

George Ttoouli : 09 Feb 2010 09:00 |  Tags: Creative Writing Permaculture |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Trackbacks (1) |  Report a problem