“As horrible as the gulf spill has been, what happened in the Amazon was worse,”
What has happened in the rainforest is heartbreaking, although it has not gotten nearly the coverage that the BP spill has.
“Texaco (later merged with Chevron) deliberately dumped many billions of gallons of waste byproduct from oil drilling directly into the rivers and streams of the rainforest covering an area the size of Rhode Island. Gouged more than 900 unlined waste pits out of the jungle floor... pits which to this day leach toxic waste into soils and groundwater. And burned hundreds of millions of cubic feet of gas and waste oil into the atmosphere, poisoning the air and creating ‘black rain’ which inundated the area during tropical thunderstorms.”
What we’ve learned from the BP debacle in the gulf, and from the rainforest, and so many other places, is just how reckless and inept the oil companies can be when it comes to safeguarding life, limb and the environment.
We need to be searching with a much, much greater sense of urgency for viable energy alternatives.
Treating the Amazon and the gulf and the Arctic as if they were nothing more than toxic waste sites is an affront to the planet and all life-forms that inhabit it.
Chevron Accused Of 'World's Worst Oil-Related Disaster' In Ecuador: Alleged Evidence Submitted In Lawsuit (PHOTOS)
