Hempt Road to be closed for 7 months for construction
Hempt Road will be closed, and detour signs will be placed along the Carlisle Pike, Route 114 and Texaco Road to where that intersects with Hempt Road and State Road.
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Hempt Road will be closed, and detour signs will be placed along the Carlisle Pike, Route 114 and Texaco Road to where that intersects with Hempt Road and State Road.
Indigenous communities in Ecuador must choose to sell their land or fend off oil goliaths through small-scale industries like ecotourism.
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Corporate Citizen: New Perspectives on the Globalized Rule of Law . Oonagh E. Fitzgerald (eds). CIGI Press. 2020. Texaco Petroleum (since acquired by Chevron Corporation in 2001) has been accused of discharging a staggering 16 billion gallons of toxic water into Ecuador’s local waterways between 1964 and 1992, devastating both the natural environment and the way of life for Indigenous populations. Since 1993, 47 Ecuadorian plaintiffs—who represented some 30,000 Ecuadorian Indigenous villagers—have pursued a lawsuit for this pollution in New York and then Ecuador, the latter of which cu...