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Chevron ruling 'sends wrong message'
compensation fight setback could spark other environmental disasters.
A lawyer representing communities in the Amazon devastated by an oil spill warned Parliament yesterday that a setback in their compensation fight could spark other environmental disasters.
Juan Pablo Saenz said a ruling by a US judge last week to deny affected people over $9 billion (£5.4bn) in compensation from Chevron would send a dangerous signal.
It was the latest twist in a decades-long struggle sparked by the dumping of billions of gallons of toxic waste into the Amazon by Chevron between 1964 and 1990.
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