Oil Lawsuit Documentary To Show In PG

Monday, November 22, 2010 03:52 AM

Members of the Cofan indigenous community travel the Aguarico River in the Amazon Rainforest

From the movie, "Crude: the Real Price of Oil" photo credit David Gilbert

Prince George, B.C. - The UNBC First Nations Studies Program, Students for a Green University, and the Sea to Sands Alliance are jointly sponsoring the showing of "Crude: the Real Price of Oil" this evening.

The 2009 documentary by Joe Berlinger premiered to critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival and tonight's showing at the Canfor Theatre is open to all, starting at 7pm.

The film documents the one of the largest environmental lawsuits on the planet, pitting 30-thousand indigenous rainforest dwellers against the U.S. oil giant, Chevron. The plaintiffs claim that Texaco, which merged with Chevron in 2001, systematically contaminated a massive parcel of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador.

To view the film's trailer,click here

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Posted on Monday, November 22, 2010 03:52 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: Harbinger on November 22 2010 12:49 PM

Would that be a petroleum powered motor boat they are in? Or well buffed rowers? Maybe a pro-oil group should show Eskimos eating raw blubber. They seem to cope with a no petroleum based society. Methinks I should be grateful that this country isn't run by "idealistic" students.

Posted by: cincam on November 22 2010 8:22 PM

Bullseye Harbinger, Bullseye!

Posted by: Surefire on November 22 2010 10:49 PM

Not so fast harbinger if that was your child with sores all over his body I'm sure you wouldn't be so quick as to critisize the natives whos' lives have been turned upside down.

Posted by: Harbinger on November 23 2010 12:23 PM

Wanting to live in a jungle in the twenty first century speaks volumes. Me? I live in a world that has North Korea and Iran's has Makmood Imadinnerjacket getting ready to change my world and not for the better. I would suggest these jungle dwellers get on their cellphones, satellite phones or computers and get the best of the lefty lawyers in the world together and sue the pants off these oil companies. And with the money they receive "after" paying their legal fees can get out of their primitive lifestyle. Just as an aside, I admire these jungle folks more than I do our local, regional and national homeless people. I'm sure these jungle folk don't have to deal with jungle panhandlers and homeless where they live.

Posted by: Harbinger on November 23 2010 2:13 PM

Jungle not politically correct? Then we can call them "rainforest dwellers". Mr. Livingston , I presume?