Does Texaco now Chevron have a moral obligation to provide a

Does Texaco (now Chevron) have a moral obligation to provide additional funds and technical expertise to clean up areas of the Amazon it is responsible for polluting? Does it have a moral obligation to provide medical care for the residents of the Amazon region who are suffering from the effects of the pollution? Explain.

Solution

Yes, Texaco / Chevron have a moral obligation to provide additional fund to clean up the areas of the Amazon where they worked for over 28 years in Ecuador.

The company dumped billions of toxic waste water into the rivers and abandonded hazardous wast which made residents of the area sick with different type of deases like cancer that is still affecting them today in the communities because the contamination on the soil and groundwater.

Texaco / Chevron carved out 350 oil wells and upon leaving the country left behind 1000 open air unlined pits filled with cryde and toxic sludge. The company never consulted local people before commencing with oil activity.

The people who lives on the area have been affected by the following: rates of cancer, including mouth, stomach and uterine cancer. The company is responsable with at least 1500 excess cancer deaths and children whose mothers were exposed to contaminated water have been born with birth defets.

Texaco / Chrebron have the obligation to provide medical care to this families because it is their fault they are on this condition.