Ecuador

CRUDE: The Real Price of Oil is coming to the Northwest. This award winning documentary features ELAW Partner and Goldman Prize winner Pablo Fajardo, and his community's fight to obtain justice from ChevronTexaco for the devastation of the Ecuadorian Amazon. We recommend that you go see it.

The Register-Guard reports on Pablo Fajardo's work seeking justice for communities in the Ecuadorean Amazon who have suffered for decades from oil industry abuses.

Pablo Fajardo lives in northeastern Ecuador. He cherishes his community and the beauty of the surrounding Amazon rainforest. When he learned that his neighbors' livestock were dying from falling into petroleum pits and people were falling ill from polluted water, he knew he had to do something.