MongaBay.com
The environmental devastation caused by decades of oil extraction in Ecuador’s Amazon persists, with no effective cleanup efforts by the government or oil companies. Over 1,110 environmental liabilities and 3,500 contamination sources scar the region.
Petroecuador, the state-owned oil company has inherited Texaco’s legacy of oil-filled pools, rendering land infertile and water sources toxic. The health impact remains undocumented, but suspicions of increased cancer cases persist.