Given the fact that Texaco operated in partnership with the

Given the fact that Texaco operated in partnership with the Ecuadorean government, is Texaco’s activity in the Amazon morally justifiable? Explain.

Solution

No it is not, the government of Ecuador did not have much idea how Texaco was going to work and neither Texaco or the government ask for the permission of the people who live there. Right now these people are still on a legal battle against Texaco.

The government of Ecuardor entrusted Texaco, a well-known U.S. company with more than a half-century\'s worth of experience, to employ modern oil-drilling practices and technology in the country\'s emerging oil patch. However, despite existing environmental laws, Texaco made deliberate, cost-cutting operational decisions that, for 28 years, resulted in an environmental catastrophe that experts have called \"Chernobyl in the Amazon