State of denial: Stakes huge in oil giant's Ecuador trial

Sacramento Bee ^ | October 19, 2003 | Tom Knudson

[farmfriend]

Until now, few people outside of South America have ever heard of Lago Agrio -- a crime-ridden oil boomtown in Ecuador's Amazon rain forest, near the Colombia border.

That is likely to change this week as lawyers from the United States and Ecuador gather in the ramshackle community for one of the biggest oil pollution trials in history, a case that is being watched closely by legal scholars, environmentalists, human rights advocates and multinational corporations.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.

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[E.G.C.]

Oklahoma agriculture ping

[The Westerner]

"Fueling the boom is demand for energy in the United States, particularly California, a state known for passionately protecting its own coastline from oil drilling."

The author might have said..."a state know for helping its country commit suicide through nihilist, anti-industrial laws against self-sufficiency."

[SierraWasp]

That theme was explored by The Bee in April, in a series of articles called "State of Denial."

Mr. Knudson, I recommend your next series be entitled... "CA, A State of Arrested Development!"

We have severely retarded infrasturcture and suffer from a total "down syndrome" in economic progress!!!

Your Politzer Prize winning "Sierra In Peril" really set it off and your subsequent series "Fat of The Land," hasn't redeemed you from your sins of vast/gross overstatement!!!