Our Mission
Help Chevron’s oil pollution victims collect the $9.5 billion they are owed.
Margarita Coquinche (Kichwa) and Gabriel Ruales lost their son and Margarita’s mother and sister in Orellana Province
A home in Shushufindi, near pozo Aguarico 4, an area posted dangerous by Chevron
One of the many oil pits left abandoned in Pozo Aguarico 4
Oil field alongside a graveyard in Cantón Joya de los Sachas
Grazing goats near a Chevron erected danger sign in Shushufindi
Oil seeps from the soil in Pozo Aguarico 4
Photos above courtesy of Enrique Aviles.
Chevron is responsible for a massive toxic oil pollution in Ecuador, known as the Amazon Chernobyl. Chevron left behind some 16 billion gallons of toxic wastewater dumped into rivers and abandoned over 900 carcinogenic waste pits. The Indigenous rainforest inhabitants were left with destroyed land, polluted water, and an epidemic of cancer and birth defects.
In 2011, the victims of Chevron's oil pollution in Ecuador won an historic legal judgement to collect compensation and restoration costs from Chevron. The giant oil company, however, has refused to pay, and has launched retaliatory legal attacks against the victims and their lawyers. Meanwhile, in Ecuador's Amazon Basin, indigenous and campesino communities have suffered the loss of land and water, birth defects, and a cancer epidemic caused by the toxic pollution.
Ecuador Amazon Restoration Project formed in Canada in 2018 to help the affected communities and their lawyers collect the $9.5 billion in compensation that Chevron has been ordered to pay. We are helping lawyers fight Chevron's retaliatory legal attacks, supporting shareholder actions to insist that Chevron pay the legal judgement, and supporting community work in Ecuador. When the plaintiffs have collected the debt from Chevron, the funds will be used to restore the land, water, and affected communities in Ecuador.
