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Author Fajardo, Pablo, 1972- author.

Title Crude : a memoir / story, Pablo Fajardo ; script, Sophie Tardy-Joubert ; drawing and color, Damien Roudeau ; translated by Hannah Chute.

Publication Info. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, Graphic Mundi [2021]
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Description 1 online resource
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Comic or graphic novel
Contents COVER front -- Never Give Up -- An Emblematic Case -- Timeline -- Where Are They Now? -- A Global Suit -- Resources -- Copyright Page
Summary Oil waste was everywhere--on the roads, in the rivers where they fished, and in the water that they used for bathing, cooking, and washing. Children became sick and died, cases of stomach cancer skyrocketed, and women miscarried or gave birth to children with congenital disorders. The American oil company Texaco--now part of Chevron--extracted its first barrel of crude oil from Amazonian Ecuador in 1972. It left behind millions of gallons of spilled oil and more than eighteen million gallons of toxic waste. In Crude, Ecuadorian lawyer and activist Pablo Fajardo gives a firsthand account of Texaco's involvement in the Amazon as well as the ensuing legal battles between the oil company, the Ecuadorian government, and the region's inhabitants. As a teenager, Fajardo worked in the Amazonian oil fields, where he witnessed the consequences of Texaco/Chevron's indifference to the environment and to the inhabitants of the Amazon. Fajardo mobilized with his peers to seek reparations and in time became the lead counsel for UDAPT (Union of People Affected by Texaco), a group of more than thirty thousand small farmers and indigenous people from the northern Ecuadorian Amazon who continue to fight for reparations and remediation to this day.Eye-opening and galvanizing, Crude brings to light one of the least well-known but most important cases of environmental and racial injustice of our time.
Subject Fajardo, Pablo, 1972- -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Oriente -- Social conditions -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Indians of South America -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00970077
Fajardo, Pablo, 1972- -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Texaco, Inc. -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Oil spills -- Environmental aspects. (OCoLC)fst01044784
Ecuador. (OCoLC)fst01205578
Liability for oil pollution damages. (OCoLC)fst00997130
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / General.
Oil spills -- Environmental aspects -- Ecuador -- Oriente -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Petroleum waste -- Environmental aspects -- Ecuador -- Oriente -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Liability for oil pollution damages -- Ecuador -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Petroleum waste -- Environmental aspects. (OCoLC)fst01059854
Chevron Corporation (2005) (OCoLC)fst01976697
Ecuador -- Oriente. (OCoLC)fst01243325
Petroleum industry and trade -- Environmental aspects. (OCoLC)fst01059577
Genre/Form Comics (Graphic works) (OCoLC)fst01921613
Subject Chevron Corporation (2005) -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Texaco, Inc. (OCoLC)fst00531046
Petroleum industry and trade -- Environmental aspects -- Ecuador -- Oriente -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- South America -- Ecuador -- Oriente -- Social conditions -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Subject COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction
Added Author Tardy-Joubert, Sophie, author.
Roudeau, Damien, 1981- illustrator.
Chute, Hannah, 1992- translator.
Added Title Texaco. English
Other Form: Print version: 9780271088068 0271088060 (DLC) 2020054793 (OCoLC)1226800706
ISBN 9781637790120 (electronic bk.)
1637790120 (electronic bk.)
9781637790113 (electronic bk.)
1637790112 (electronic bk.)
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