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Daryl Hannah down for indigenous in Ecuador

11:57 H | Topics: Celebrities - Ecuador - Environment

PH2007060500666.jpgLast year, Daryl Hannah was up in a tree with Joan Baez, trying to save an L.A. farm from being taken over by developers. This year, she's got her feet on the ground in Ecuador, for yet another environmental struggle:

...Daryl Hannah traveled through the thick Ecuadorian jungle on Monday to see for herself why 30,000 villagers and indigenous people of the Amazon are suing the oil company Chevron.

The oil giant faces a trial in this town, located 110 miles to the east of Quito, for supposedly failing to clean up the spill of hundreds of millions of liters of toxic water.

The inhabitants of Lago Agrio, Ecuador, are asking that Chevron pay 6 billion dollars in damages.

Via / El Universal
Image via Washington Post - AP

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