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Compensation For Environmental Damage In Ecuadorian Amazon

EDM number 677 in 2013-14, proposed by Chris Williamson on 06/11/2013.
Categorised under the topics of Companies, Environmental protection, Latin America and Pollution.

That this House notes the huge environmental and social damage caused by oil giant Chevron-Texaco in the Ecuadorian Amazon; further notes that Chevron-Texaco admits to dumping billions of gallons of toxic waste into the Ecuadorian Amazon between 1964 and 1990; is concerned that this contaminated the rivers used by local people for drinking, bathing and fishing resulting in numerous health issues for the people living there; believes this is one of the world's greatest environmental disasters with the oil dumped estimated to be roughly 30 times the amount spilt in the Exxon Valdez disaster; is concerned that Chevron-Texaco never carried out a meaningful clean up; congratulates the 30,000 local people who organised themselves into Amazon Defence Front and filed legal action against Chevron-Texaco to demand compensation; regrets that over the past 20 years Chevron-Texaco has not settled but used its financial advantage to oppose providing any compensation to the Amazonian communities; further notes that after decades of campaigning in 2011, an independent Ecuadorian court ordered Chevron-Texaco to pay $19 billion in compensation to the affected people; is concerned by reports that Chevron-Texaco has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in legal and lobbying fees to prevent compensation being paid; further notes that in contrast BP established a $20 billion fund to settle claims following the Gulf of Mexico oil spill; and calls for Chevron-Texaco to settle the compensation payment to the Amazon communities for the damage caused.

This motion has been signed by a total of 32 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Chris Williamson06/11/2013Derby NorthLabourProposed
David Anderson06/11/2013BlaydonLabourSeconded
Grahame Morris06/11/2013EasingtonLabourSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn06/11/2013Islington NorthLabourSeconded
Ian Lavery06/11/2013WansbeckLabourSeconded
Steve Rotheram06/11/2013Liverpool, WaltonLabourSeconded
Mark Durkan06/11/2013FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Caroline Lucas06/11/2013Brighton, PavilionGreenSigned
Kelvin Hopkins06/11/2013Luton NorthLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley06/11/2013Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Andrew George06/11/2013St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Shannon07/11/2013StrangfordDUPSigned
Glenda Jackson07/11/2013Hampstead and KilburnLabourSigned
Paul Flynn08/11/2013Newport WestLabourSigned
John McDonnell11/11/2013Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
John Leech12/11/2013Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Hancock12/11/2013Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Alasdair McDonnell12/11/2013Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Martin Caton18/11/2013GowerLabourSigned
Margaret Ritchie18/11/2013South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Mark Williams19/11/2013CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
David Ward20/11/2013Bradford EastLiberal DemocratSigned
George Galloway25/11/2013Bradford WestRespectSigned
Katy Clark26/11/2013North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Joan Ruddock27/11/2013Lewisham, DeptfordLabourSigned
Kate Hoey29/11/2013VauxhallLabourSigned
John Cryer02/12/2013Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Sheila Gilmore04/12/2013Edinburgh EastLabourSigned
Sarah Teather09/12/2013Brent CentralLiberal DemocratSigned
Julian Huppert09/12/2013CambridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Jonathan Edwards09/12/2013Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Mike Weatherley16/12/2013HoveConservativeSigned

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