Amazonian Indigenous Leaders to Confront Occidental Petroleum at Annual General Shareholder Meeting in L.A. http://www.amazonwatch.org/newsroom/view_news.php?id=2085

Oxy's oil operations in the Peruvian Amazon have caused massive environmental devastation, and led to a severe public health crisis among the Achuar people. Between 1971 and 2000, Oxy drilled more than 150 wells and built nearly 300 miles of roads in the formerly intact Amazon rainforest homeland of the Achuar indigenous people. 

Oxy faces a class action lawsuit in the U.S. brought against it in 2007 by Achuar plaintiffs. The case is currently in the appeals process. The plaintiffs are also considering taking legal action in Peruvian courts in the event the appeals court affirms that the case should be heard in Peru. For every barrel of oil produced in Peru, Oxy dumped eight barrels of toxic wastewater into the Amazon.

Over three decades, the company discharged an estimated nine billion barrels of toxic effluent directly into rivers and streams used by the Achuar for drinking, bathing and food production. Oxy's operations also resulted in numerous crude oil spills, many of which were never cleaned up. The Corrientes River, a main source of drinking water for over 6,000 Achuar, was once covered from bank to bank in oil so thick their canoes would become mired in the sludge making rowing nearly impossible.

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