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Texaco completed its pipeline from the rain forest to the Pacific coast of Ecuador in 1972. From 1972 to 1989, 1.4 billion barrels of oil passed through the pipeline. Over those 17 years, 27 spills occurred, releasing an estimated 16.8 million gallons of crude oil into one of the world's biodiversity hot spots and the traditional home of thousands of Ecuadorian natives. Judith Kimerling, a Yale-educated attorney and the author of Amazon Crude, estimates that, even today, 4.3 million gallons of untreated toxic wastes are being released into the watershed every...
Much like the Ecuadorian Amazon, the area of Burma across which the pipelines cut is biologically rich and home to many disenfranchised ethnic minority groups. The Tenasserim rain forest is the largest intact rain forest in southeast Asia, home to such endangered species as the white rhinoceros and the tiger. Texaco's track record in Ecuador demonstrates that the corporation is not likely to be a good environmental steward; no independent environmental impact assessments have been conducted in the pipeline region...
...ROBERT E. ("Teddy") TURNER IV, who was downsized by his dad Ted Turner, when Ted's biz merged with Time Warner. ("You're toast," dad said over dinner.) Teddy has two new jobs: one at his own company, which is developing an enhanced form of cable delivery; another with Forest Hills Cos., a nascent entertainment concern. He may one day even offer his pa some competition...
Another case yesterday brought 50-year-old Brockton resident James Kater, who has been convicted twice of killing a teenager and tying her to a tree in Freetown State Forest, to court for the fourth time in 17 years...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "We've got so much old-growth forest out there, for God's sake, the trees are falling down...