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Do environmentalists have an interest in who controls oil resources? / Mark Weisbrot, Real World Economics Review blog, 3/03/2012http://rwer.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/do-environmentalists-have-an-interest-in-who-controls-oil-resources/Environmentalists seem to realize that they have some stake in a fight such as the Ecuador-Chevron lawsuit. In that case, which Chevron has recently moved to an international arbitration panel in an attempt to avoid a multi-billion penalty handed down by Ecuadorian courts, it is about whether a multinational oil corporation will have to pay damages for pollution, for which it is responsible. Most environmentalists figure that would be a good thing...