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lives. what. is the goal that wells under the ground when he wishes to rest he turns into a sterile. rules over the wild beasts of the jungle and when the shamans drink they come in contact with him and ask him to bring animals to the community. and when the animals come to the community we easily hunt them down with blowpipes and share them as we always have.
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however the oil companies that have come here place explosives and dynamite in the earth to get the oil out of it they have taken our land and they are killing quote unquote by sucking his blood and polluting nature with chemicals. so our god is dying and we have no animals to hunt as we used to live with diseases
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a bowl of rice and responds. only . when you know borders. in the beginning everything looked great big machines but open roads in the jungle but then the pollution appeared i mean. the biodiversity disappeared everything died because there were fires burning day and night and i was in insects to go near the smoke stacks fall into the talks of tanks and. i began to fall ill from endless as we didn't know if. we had shamans that
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a good life for us means having a lot of space because we live from nature now we protect the little land we have left because of the oil companies there is a very small area left to us and that is why we now turn to handicrafts in order to survive. look if the issue is that natives lived there and the neighbors were considered by the state people they claim that this land is a desert of the area. tribes have been living there for hundreds of years but they said no one lived there he said all right since no one lives there we will dump our
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waste into the river and those are the rivers where the neighbors fished based drank water and lived from a jungle. the neighbors were considered useless expendable. they were all taken it all into consideration when. chevron texaco is not a human being like you and i. is a legal entity and such an entity cannot think such a thing has no feelings. it's . base. in.
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the jungle only forty years ago. it is twenty kilometers away from the colombian border and field as the locals say when the three piece pewters. patrol we. get is a town created by settlers the government also. cultivate. they were poor. blacks people from all over who came to work in a new industry filled with hope today there were thousands disappointed to residents. it's. this pastor is grazed by
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they never used membranes or any other material to prevent the absorption of hydrocarbons by the soil and they're spreading to other places no. production waters are closely linked to all oil produced energy. was known the impact of production water since in one nine hundred sixty s. just have systems in place for safe handling such as the reinjection in the
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drilling. however here in ecuador these methods were never used. in the usa a country where they came from. and they applied a technology that didn't allow for any dumping in the reverse gas burning or leaving open waste. but here knowing full well they shouldn't do it they did so anyway. because that way they saved four billion dollars and the reason is it amounted to money why should they reject production water to save the lives of some poor natives. i say all this is absolutely false. the company began operating in eastern ecuador in one nine hundred sixty four using all the latest technologies next door as in the rest of the world. so what is said is pure propaganda by people who attack the
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earth in order to fill up the holes left after the deep pollution. where the government. would be dumb. it's pure oil. can't records but the smell is absolutely disgusting. and when it's sunny the stench is even stronger. of course when it rains the toxic waste spreads elsewhere that is why pollution here is parametric. it has tremendous repercussions on the people and that is why in the amazon cancer rates are much higher. there are one hundred forty seven
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thank. you we have the highest cancer rates in the ecuadorian amazon over fifteen hundred people have died from cancer. that's so people die from cancer all across the world causes and effects between oil and cancer have never been proven and it's never been medically certified they say there are. with cancer well let's suppose there are no winners proven but it is because of the oil . to see how they degrade the natives telling them all is a fertilizer for their plants and farm lands if there is a ceiling your property be happy for oil is the first what they tell them all is
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good for the here because there are shampoos with the world so you can take some oil and put it on your hair. the drinking water was proven polluted however they went there with a team performed analysis and told them you can export this water bottle it and export it it is very good quality water. before the oil companies refusal to recognize the destruction there was also a refusal to inform people about the damaging effects of oil and talks acceptance is. something i. mean yes. they were communities where children would chew the crude oil because it was think. it was like. no one absolutely no one had told them those substances were
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toxic. you know nothing he never put up a fence saying but no entry for animals children or people. you know and so the pollution spread everywhere. people that chewed it like in the tanks. they shifted the crude oil floating on top of the reverse and dip their cup into drink no one had told them the substances were talks like.
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