Court Says Chevron Can Be Pursued in Canada Over Ecuadorean Damage
By IAN AUSTEN and CLIFFORD KRAUSS: A version of this article appears in print on September 5, 2015, on page B2 of the New York edition
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Friday that a group of Ecuadoreans can use an Ontario court in an attempt to collect billions of dollars from Chevronfor environmental damage.
The ruling is the latest step in a 13-year legal battle over the contamination of a rain forest in Ecuador, where Texaco had oil operations. The lawsuit has pitted Ecuadorean villagers in the region of Lago Agrio against Chevron, which bought Texaco.
While a trial court in Ecuador initially awarded the villagers $17.2 billion, an appeals court reduced the damages to $9.5 billion. It was one of the largest judgments imposed by a court for environmental contamination.
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