FSRN previews CRUDE; A new film oil giant Chevron may not want you to see

A new documentary by award-winning film maker Joe Berlinger opened in New York Wednesday. Here´s the trailer.

Indigenous groups are suing Chevron for the damage caused over more than 20 years of oil drilling. They claim Texaco spilled millions of gallons of crude oil into the rainforest soil and released more than 18 billion gallons of waste water into rivers and streams. The indigenous people of the area suffer from high cancer rates and birth defects as a result and they´re suing for compensation in an Ecuadorean court. Damages could be worth up to 27 billion dollars.

One of the organizations appearing in this film is Amazon Watch, an advocacy group that exposes corporate abuse in rainforests in several countries. FSRN spoke with Mitch Anderson, the lead campaigner for Amazon Watch´s Ecuador project.