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Indigenous campaigners have vowed to “fight until the end” after a lawsuit to suspend Ecuador’s oil operations was thrown out of court.
An estimated 27,000 people were left without safe water, fish and game after a landslide ruptured three pipelines in the Amazon in April, causing 15,000 barrels of crude oil to pollute two major rivers.
Dozens of complainants told the trial, held by Zoom, of the health risks caused by the spill, from toxic fish floating in the waters to unexplained rashes irritating their children’s bodies.
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