Erin Brockovich: 'Only people paying the price of Chevron are the innocent'

Chevron is accused of polluting the Amazon for 26 years but the only people who’ve suffered are a human rights lawyer and the indigenous Ecuadorians whose land was poisoned

Supporters of lawyer Steven Donziger hold a small rally for his court appearance at Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in Manhattan on May 10, 2021, in New York City.   Picture: Michael M Santiago/Getty

Most people have probably heard of Chernobyl, or the BP oil spill. You may also know about my legal battle over contaminated water in California, dramatised in the movie Erin Brockovich.

Yet far fewer people have heard about what transpired in the Ecuadorian Amazon — though it’s considered by some activists, journalists, and members of US Congress to be one of the world’s worst environmental disasters.