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

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.

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.

Don't these people watch the news or something? Screw with the people and you get screwed instead

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.

Signed!

Thank you for posting this important info.

Signed and voted way up.

I hope you all don't have guilty consciences, but we subsidized this with our tax dollars.

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.

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.

Should not the United Nations charge Chevron with "Crimes Against Humanity"?

"The Sky People have sent us a message. So we will send them a message..."

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

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.

I don't understand.... "Why do they hate us?" I too stoopid to know why.

Chevron must pay.

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

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.

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.

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.

Big Oil isn't your friend. They don't care who or what they hurt to get their hands on oil to make a profit.

So thats what they do with all the sludge they clean up

I truly don't understand how the people that argue for these companies fall asleep at night. I really don't.

Cruelty.

For those who like to use the label "tyrant", seek no further.