Chevron abusing courts to delay judgment in $27 billion environmental suit
“Facing overwhelming evidence of that they caused a massive human rights violation, Chevron is engaged in an absolute judicial fraud in Ecuador to keep the trial going to avoid paying a judgment,” said Pablo Fajardo, the lawyer for 30,000 Amazonian residents filed the case in 1993. “The company has gone rogue and thousands of innocent people are the victims.”
“Chevron does not respect the law and refuses to accept the legitimacy of the legal system because it knows it is about to lose the very trial that it fought to have in Ecuador,” said Fajardo, referring to the fact Chevron fought for nine years in U.S. federal court to have the case shifted to Ecuador over the objections of the plaintiffs.
The lawsuit seeks damages for the dumping of more than 18 billion gallons of toxic waste into Amazon waterways over a 26-year period when Texaco operated an oil consortium. Five indigenous groups have had their traditional lifestyles decimated and cancer rates in the area have skyrocketed, according to plaintiffs and an independent, court-appointed expert.
The court expert, Professor Richard Cabrera, worked with a team of 14 independent technical experts. They concluded it would take at least $27 billion to remediate the rainforest to safe levels and compensate people for health problems caused by the contamination. The amount would wipe out more than a year of the company’s profits.
Saying that Chevron’s knows the “game is up” and that if faces a multi-billion dollar judgment, lawyers for the rainforest residents are asking that the trial judge rule based on more than 250,000 pages of evidence and close to 80,000 chemical sampling results generated in the lawsuit. Chevron’s top lawyer, Charles James, said recently that the company expects a “significant adverse judgment” in Ecuador.
“Chevron in this case has been granted more due process rights than probably any defendant in the history of civil justice,” said Julio Prieto, a lawyer who works with Fajardo. “They have had 15 years to litigate, and they are still looking for new courts that will accept their theories of junk science that posit that known human carcinogens cannot cause harm to people if ingested. Once one court rules against them, they look for another court to start the process all over again.
“The reality is that Chevron will never accept any adverse ruling from an independent court,” added Prieto.
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- JanforGore
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There are no words for people like those at Chevron who are doing this to these people.
We need to start looking for benefactors of our own who can pool money together to start buying up the stock of these companies until we own a majority interest in them in order to vote the ****** out and run these companies then as they should be run. Nothing else up to this point has seemed to work.
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- JanforGore
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an oil company shirking environmental responsibility,.....say it ain't sooooo!!!
Understand by now that all oil companies will do everything in their power to:
a) remain in power
b) fight any government court that rules against them
c) continue to pollute our air, water, and land, with no concern for anything except the almighty dollar.(and why should they? they are just like all capitalist corporations that are geared towards making as much money as they can)
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Greedy ass bastards. Fuck Chevron. $27B is too little for the damage they caused to the earth.
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- cerealforeal
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Yes, and the longer it takes to settle the more profits they make making 27 billion look even less.The CEO and board of directors should have to live there for a year and drink that water and bathe in it. That's part of the sentence I would give. Bastards. SO sick of corporate pr***s destroying this planet and the lives of others and getting away with it!
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- JanforGore
- 9 months ago
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good evening all
It has been a while, but I know you still think of me every day you gas up. Oh yeah I forgot, you all have windmills on top of your cars. . . .. . ..
God bless big oil
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from Chevrons site:
"We're committed to helping meet the world's demand for energy while taking steps to protect the environment. We believe that it's the right thing to do and that it's critical to our success in a world in which energy sources should be developed in an environment that's clean, safe and healthy.
That's why we are continually improving our processes to minimize pollution and waste, conserve natural resources, and reduce potentially negative environmental impacts of our activities and operations."
This is some sick stuff, the whole business is just wrong.
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If chevron contends that their stuff does not cause harm, why not have all the executives drink it for a year? if so, i'll accept their claims and decide for myself that ecuador is just filled with a bunch of greedy bush people.
honestly, how great would it have been if the prosecutor stood up and offered that option to the defendants!
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chevron is a rouge company? paying off courts? scandeling every one and destroying rainforest ecosystems?
"The lawsuit seeks damages for the dumping of more than 18 billion gallons of toxic waste into Amazon waterways over a 26 YEAR PERIOD when
Texaco operated an oil consortium. Five indigenous groups have had their traditional lifestyles decimated and cancer rates in the area have skyrocketed, according to plaintiffs and an independent, court-appointed expert."
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Poisoned Paradise
A crime of immense proportions. I have great respect for the indigenous peoples who are standing up to this company. Companies that do this should not be allowed to be in business any longer.
Click on the link to see the video.
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- JanforGore
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indigenous groups thought to find a lawyer? wow thats progress
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yes, they aren't as dumb as you think they are.
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- JanforGore
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Those who destroy the Spirit of the Earth will never have peace.
I support indigenous peoples everywhere whose lives are destroyed by these corporations.
BOYCOTT Chevron.
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- JanforGore
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Too bad this isn't the whole story, in fact it's pretty quick to throw stones at the big bad oil company....
this situation is no where near as clear cut as you all seem to think.
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Right, and yet you give no specifics. And this is your only response with no profile. Work for Chevron, perhaps? Or are you simply deaf dumb and blind?
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- JanforGore
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