The government will help the tribesmen to gather evidence to support their contention that the US oil firm has polluted their communities, Al Jazeera reported Correa as saying in a statement on Tuesday.
The nearly 30,000 jungle residents accuse Chevron’s subsidiary, Texaco, of dumping 18 billion gallons of oil-laden water into their region of the Amazon between 1972 and 1992.
“We will not allow any more preying on our environment and our people," Correa said in the statement.
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