Community | February 14, 2011 | 50 comments

Chevron Insults and Attacks Indigenous People in Ecuador, Counter-Sues

source: http://planetsave.com/2011/02/14/chevron-insults-and-attacks-indigenous-people-in-ecuador-co...

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"Chevron has dumped tons and tons.. and tons.. of water containing numerous carcinogens in the rivers and streams of several Ecuadorian tribes. It even admits this part of the story. However, it claims that it has not caused harm to a single soul."
http://planetsave.com/2011/02/14/chevron-insults-and-attacks-indigenous-people-i...
Photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/rainforestactionnetwork/4858689132/in/set-721576245...

"Chevron recently:

threatened the trial judge with criminal liability for refusing to grant the oil giant’s motions to dismiss the case; sued each of the 47 impoverished indigenous and farmer plaintiffs in Ecuador’s rainforest in New York federal court; sought an unprecedented injunction from a U.S. federal judge to bar any American lawyer from enforcing a judgment out of Ecuador anywhere in the world; and finished its 13th day deposing one of the plaintiff’s American lawyer, apparently breaking the record for the longest deposition of a lawyer on a sitting case.

The company also filed a civil RICO suit in New York yesterday, claiming the indigenous groups were trying to extort money from Chevron via the lawsuit."
Report from http://chevrontoxico.com/news-and-multimedia/2011/0202-scientific-evidence-will-...

More information at: http://amazonwatch.org/news/2011/0207-chevron-finds-its-toxic-dumping-didnt-harm...

This is out of this world! When will we get Justice?
Take action here:http://chevrontoxico.com/take-action/send-chevron-a-message.html
and here: http://www.change.org/petitions/chevron_clean_up_your_toxic_mess_in_ecuador
Photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/rainforestactionnetwork/4858689132/in/set-721576245... http://www.ran.org/



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50 comments // Chevron Insults and Attacks Indigenous People in Ecuador, Counter-Sues

  • Earthwalker
  • mcjk
    • 0
      mcjk  

    • Isn't it incredible how horrible a company can behave- and yet they send loads of cash to our politicians of public service in Washington, and have the biggest chairs in the chamber of Commerce? The country goes on, no reprimand or investigation, just big tax breaks. Not enough people care. They just keep driving those SUV's.

    • 2 years ago
  • Wetdog
    • 0
      Wetdog  

    • The next step------you are going to hear lots of howling and growling about Ecuador being a dictatorship, or harboring terrorists, or a communist regime wanting to nationalize American property----------or something or other.

      ANYTHING make a political excuse to send in(or threaten to) military intervention and economic and political invention.

      Watch and see. Chevron will continue to pump and profit from oil in Ecuador---and do JUST the same as they always have. And they will not pay a single dime of the judgement against them.

      Most likely---we'll see a "revolution" against the government and an "antisocialist" democracy that is anything but democratic.

    • 2 years ago
  • coxian_armada
  • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
    • +2
      COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM  

    • I have already emailed two departments within Chevron informing them that I am one of many who are boycotting Chevron, Texaco and all affiliates, for their victimization of the Ecuadorean environment and it's native peoples. I have indicated that this boycott will continue until Chevron has both, paid the judgement sum ordered by the Ecuadorean court, and gone beyond that measure to ameliorate their HIDEOUS acts against the Ecuadorean environment and it's native peoples.

    • 2 years ago
  • MotherForTruth
  • treewolf39
  • WakeUpPeople
  • Tim_Patrick
  • JanforGore
  • nkeg87
    • +4
      nkeg87  

    • I wish there was a oil company off the top of my head that has not done something stupid and harmful. I honestly don't think it should be that damn difficult to be a moral company and treat the environment and people with respect. I know they only care money but that is not excuse for how ridiculous they act.

      Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, and many others...they have all acted with such gross disregard for people of the world it makes me want to walk 100 miles a day instead of contributing to their misconduct.

    • 2 years ago
  • Wetdog
    • 0
      Wetdog  
    • nkeg87:

      There is a way. Don't use oil. You can still drive and do everything else you've always done.

      Just don't use oil to do it.

      It is already being done in other parts of the world.

    • 2 years ago
  • Jeremy_Benson
    • +4
      Jeremy_Benson  

    • How the fuck are you going to sue a bunch of indigenous people? You gonna take their gourds? Put a lien against their huts? I don't even know how to coherently express my anger at this.

    • 2 years ago
  • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
  • Jeremy_Benson
  • ArchDruid
  • Wetdog
    • 0
      Wetdog  
    • ArchDruid:

      If you have a vehicle that could run equally well or better using no gasoline at all, would you continue to use gasoline?

      If you have a vehicle that could run twice as far or more on the same amount of money as using gasoline, produced no pollution, and reduced carbon emissions 35%----would you continue to use gasoline?

      What if your vehicle could do all those things----and you could also use gasoline in it.

      How much gasoline would you want to use?

    • 2 years ago
  • EmperorThan
  • tommic
    • +3
      tommic  

    • We all need to think about this, its more than just a crime, its the purposeful destruction for excessive profit that fuels this and our cars

    • 2 years ago
  • WakeUpPeople
  • tommic
    • 0
      tommic  
    • WakeUpPeople:

      free market capitalism from the view from afar is a disaster, greed rules, compassion a distant thought, selfishness over selflessness, ego in lieu of humility, leaving mankind spashing about in its wake. awaiting to awaken from this dream.

    • 2 years ago
  • telcod
    • +3
      telcod  

    • Need to boycott Chevron. I haven't bought their gasoline in years. Still don't buy Dow products either or Union Carbide. Time to set up a Boycott site on Current. Gotta look into that. Cause the only vote you are ever gonna make that is gonna count for anything at all is with your pocket book. Take a lesson from our corporate controlled country and thought masters.

    • 2 years ago
  • Wetdog
    • 0
      Wetdog  
    • telcod:

      Oil is a commodity----it does not matter if you do not buy Chevron brand, if you use oil, you are supporting Chevron and BP.

      The only way to boycott Chevron or BP(or any other oil company) is not to use oil.

      That is why I keep trying to tell people that we have ways to have everything we need, and we do not need oil to do it.

    • 2 years ago
  • telcod
    • 0
      telcod  
    • Wetdog:

      Let's see? No plastic, no fertilizer, ergo, no food or clothing, no siding, carpets, roofing, industry, lubrication. I applaud your vision and stalwart approach. Again, the will and vision is not in the minds and hearts of the masters.

    • 2 years ago
  • Wetdog
    • 0
      Wetdog  
    • telcod:

      Black liquor is a byproduct of the paper pulp making process.

      Black liquor is the biological equivalent of crude oil. Anything made with crude oil can be made with black liquor.

    • 2 years ago
  • Mr_Brainwash
  • hissyfitx
  • Wetdog
    • +2
      Wetdog  

    • We can completely replace any need for petroleum at all with options that we have available right now. No batteries required.

    • 2 years ago
  • telcod
  • Wetdog
    • 0
      Wetdog  
    • telcod:

      Do you mean, like the majority does not rule in Egypt?

      Doesn't it seem a little ironic that a dictatorship of thirty years should be teaching US a lesson in democracy?

    • 2 years ago
  • DavidGabbard
    • +3
      DavidGabbard  

    • And yet you continue to hear chants of "Drill baby drill." Most Americans have no idea of what's happening beyond the confines of their own backyard. They don't even know what's going on back there either.

    • 2 years ago
  • Wetdog
  • FLeggplant
    • +8
      FLeggplant  

    • It's truly horrendous what these oil companies get away with.
      My Uncle worked for Chevron for 40 years and swears to me that they are unlike all the other oil companies. He still defends them even after he's been retired for 20 years. Whenever I bring up a story like this one, he won't believe it.
      In his partial defense, the company did treat him really well and gave him a good retirement pension. But, even though he was one of the lucky ones I still try to make him understand that Chevron is just like all the other oil companies.
      All they care about is money. The people and the environment mean nothing to them. Makes me really angry to hear him defend them.
      The reason they were so able to give him a good job and retirement was because of stories like this one. Suck the life out of the land and the people to make a profit. Crude Vampires. Sickening.

    • 2 years ago
  • Jeremy_Benson
    • +1
      Jeremy_Benson  
    • FLeggplant:

      People like your uncle were simply doing a job. They have no real connection to the atrocities committed by these people - but no one wants to admit that they may have spent their life profiting off the death of others, even if only by proxy and even if they were ignorant of it at the time. I can certainly understand his stubbornness.

    • 2 years ago
  • FLeggplant
    • +1
      FLeggplant  
    • Jeremy_Benson:

      I do understand how he feels.
      He is a stubborn old man now and like I said, they treated Him really well.
      But, it still makes me mad that he is unwilling to admit that Chevron is just another money grubbing, greedy company with no care for the planet or it's living creatures.

    • 2 years ago
  • Jeremy_Benson
    • 0
      Jeremy_Benson  
    • FLeggplant:

      Not that you will usually hear me say this or that I make a habit of giving personal advice to strangers, but in this case you might consider droping the Chevron bit and allow him to finish retirement without having to contemplate the things he may have helped enable. If he was a young buck it would be different, but 20 years into retirement... it might be best to let him have his peace. I'm glad you're angry about it, and I'm glad he's stubborn. It means that you're both good people.

    • 2 years ago
  • mybologna
    • +3
      mybologna  

    • Walk more, ride a bicycle, use public transportation, invest on green energy. That's the only way to fight the oil companies. As long as we keep being dependent on oil, they will continue to have unchecked power and unlimited resources to fight those who may expose their evil deeds or threaten their precious profits.

    • 2 years ago
  • Zachary_Shahan
    • +1
      Zachary_Shahan  
    • mybologna:

      this IS the way to fight this. thanks for the tip. we can complain, but as long as oil companies are supplying a demand, it seems they are going to rape the land and mistreat people like this

    • 2 years ago
  • Wolverineusmm
  • bailey78
  • Schnookums
  • Stoneyroad
  • Schnookums
  • bailey78
  • Mr_Brainwash
  • WakeUpPeople
  • lookatmypix
  • bailey78
  • DavidGabbard
  • lookatmypix
    • 0
      lookatmypix  
    • DavidGabbard:

      We can make that wish come true if we keep spreading the word.
      Send an email to all you know about this, post it on Facebook, Twitter etc. These platforms can make anything viral, and that is true power.

    • 2 years ago
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