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It's getting hot as crunch time comes for Chevron to pay for their massive environmental destruction in Ecuador and the lives of the indigenous people who live there. According to this report the decision should come down sometime later this year. You can be assured that I will be keeping up with this. This needs to set a precedent for other companies that willfully destroy the environment that they will pay for it. I think Chevron's lawyers already know that will happen in this case.It's getting hot as crunch time comes for Chevron to pay for their massive... more
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The Amazon Defense Coalition reports that oil is still visible to the naked eye in places where Chevron claimed it was remediated. Their plea to delay the trial was denied. I can only hope the next step is to see them pay, although no amount of money can make up for the environmental devastation they have caused and the lives they have ruined. However, this is good news to go forward with.The Amazon Defense Coalition reports that oil is still visible to the naked eye in... more
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Trying to make good on its promise of a “lifetime of litigation” for indigenous groups in the Amazon, Chevron is using fraudulent tactics to delay an Ecuadorian trial court from reaching a decision on a record $27 billion in environmental damages, lawyers for local residents say.
“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.Trying to make good on its promise of a “lifetime of litigation” for... more
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they have done it before, like in 1999... and they will try to do it again.
The oil giant wants to force Washington to revoke trade agreements with Ecuador over the lawsuit that is unwinnable, cuase they are guilty as sin.they have done it before, like in 1999... and they will try to do it again.
The oil... more
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Chevron, which posted a record profit of $23.8 billion in 2008 is suing a group of Nigerian villagers for almost $500,000 in legal costs resulting from a embarrassing legal case (Bowoto v. Chevron) that Chevron narrowly survived this past November. This was the legal case in which a group of unarmed Nigerian villagers were shot and killed during the oil-derrick version of a sit-in protest. The villagers sought to hold Chevron responsible since it paid for, housed, fed, and directed the Nigerian military forces who shot the protestors.Chevron, which posted a record profit of $23.8 billion in 2008 is suing a group of... more
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We can only hope it does. Corporations should be liable for crimes against humanity and the environment.
That picture makes me cry.
Humans.We can only hope it does. Corporations should be liable for crimes against humanity... more
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In San Francisco a federal jury has cleared oil giant Chevron of any responsibility for the May 1998 shooting and killing of protesters in the oil-rich Niger Delta. More of this story and other headlines from Democracy Now! for December 02, 2008.In San Francisco a federal jury has cleared oil giant Chevron of any responsibility... more
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Security Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger-Delta said yesterday that its troops successfully foiled an attack launched by militants on the United States of America (USA) oil multi-national, Chevron, at Escravos, Warri South-west Local Government Area of Delta State.Security Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger-Delta said yesterday that its troops... more
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http://www.zennie62.com -- This video presents Day One of the case of Bowoto v. Chevron at U.S. District Court, Northern California, San Francisco.
Here Larry Bowoto from Nigeria is accusing Chevron of harming him and his mates and violating their civil rights, and Chevron's counter is that Bowoto and his mates entered there oil production facility and attempted to kidnap Chevron employees.
In calling the Nigerian Military police, a skermish unfolded where Bowoto and his mates were alledgely harmed.
In this video Chevron's Don Campbell presents Chevron's side of the case; there was no spokesperson for Bowoto's side available.http://www.zennie62.com -- This video presents Day One of the case of Bowoto v.... more
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Drilling and Killing: Landmark Trial Against Chevron Begins Over Its Role in the Niger Delta.
A landmark trial has begun against the oil giant Chevron. A San Francisco district court is hearing a case brought by Nigerian plaintiffs who accuse Chevron of recruiting and supplying Nigerian military forces involved in the May 1998 shooting and killing of protesters in the oil-rich Niger Delta. The protesters were occupying a Chevron-owned oil platform called the Parabe, demanding jobs and compensation for environmental damage to their communities.
more@linkDrilling and Killing: Landmark Trial Against Chevron Begins Over Its Role in the Niger... more
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If you're worried about environmental issues, take a look at this list of offenders and make sure you're not contributing to their assault of the environment.If you're worried about environmental issues, take a look at this list of... more
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Learn more about the legal battle against Chevron over contamination in the amazon region of Ecuador.
http://www.mofilms.org/justicianow/
Learn more about the legal battle against Chevron over contamination in the amazon... more
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Few legal battles have been more exotic than the lawsuit tried over the past five years in a steamy jungle courtroom in Ecuador’s Amazon rain forest. Brought by a group of U.S. trial lawyers on behalf of thousands of indigenous Indian peasants, the suit accuses Chevron of responsibility for the dumping (allegedly conducted by Texaco, which Chevron bought in 2001) of billions of gallons of toxic oil wastes into the region’s rivers and streams. Activists describe the disaster as an Amazon Chernobyl. The plaintiffs-some suffering from cancer and physical deformities-have showed up in court in native garb, with painted faces and half naked. Chevron vigorously contests the charges and has denounced the entire proceeding as a “shakedown.”
But this spring, events for Chevron took an ominous turn when a court-appointed expert recommended Chevron be required to pay between $8 billion and $16 billion to clean up the rain forest. Although it was not the final verdict, the figures sent shock waves through Chevron’s corporate boardroom in San Ramon, Calif., and forced the company for the first time to disclose the issue to its shareholders. It has also now spawned an unusually high-powered battle in Washington between an army of Chevron lobbyists and a group of savvy plaintiff lawyers, one of whom has tapped a potent old schoolmate-Barack Obama.
Chevron is pushing the Bush administration to take the extraordinary step of yanking special trade preferences for Ecuador if the country’s leftist government doesn’t quash the case. A spokesman for U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab confirmed that her office is considering the request. Attorney Steven Donziger, who is coordinating the D.C. opposition to Chevron, says the firm is “trying to get the country to cry uncle.” He adds: “It’s the crudest form of power politics.”
Chevron’s powerhouse team includes former Senate majority leader Trent Lott, former Democratic senator John Breaux and Wayne Berman, a top fund-raiser for John McCain-all with access to Washington’s top decision makers. (A senior Chevron exec has met with Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte on the matter.) Chevron argues that it has been victimized by a “corrupt” Ecuadoran court system while the plaintiffs received active support from Ecuador’s leftist president, Rafael Correa-an ally of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez. The company says a loss could set a dangerous precedent for other U.S. multinationals. “The ultimate issue here is Ecuador has mistreated a U.S. company,” said one Chevron lobbyist who asked not to be identified talking about the firm’s arguments to U.S. officials. “We can’t let little countries screw around with big companies like this-companies that have made big investments around the world.”
But Chevron’s foes are not without their own resources. Just recently, Donziger and other trial lawyers in the case retained their own high-profile D.C. superlobbyist, Ben Barnes, a major Democratic fund-raiser. And they have tapped a capital connection that may pay off even more. Roughly two years ago, when Donziger first got wind that Chevron might take its case to Washington, he went to see Obama. The two were basketball buddies at Harvard Law School. In several meetings in Obama’s office, Donziger showed his old friend graphic photos of toxic oil pits and runoffs. He also argued strongly that Chevron was trying to subvert the “rule of law” by doing an end run on an Ecuadoran legal case. Obama was “offended by that,” said Donziger. Obama vetted the issue with Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy (who has long worked on Latin American human-rights issues), and in February 2006 the two wrote a letter to the then U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman urging the administration to permit the Ecuadoran peasants to have “their day in court.”Few legal battles have been more exotic than the lawsuit tried over the past five... more
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What Chevron does with the it's.. 'human energy'.
The largest environmental class action lawsuit has been filed against Chevron, formerly Texaco, for the dumping of over 18 billion gallons of toxic waste water directly upon the Ecuadorian Amazon rain-forest floor..
Since the court's environmental remediation estimate came in at a whopping $8-16 Billion dollars, Chevron has been shaking in their penny loafers and employing a few old tricks
(Chevron has hired former Republican Senator Trent Lott to lobby the Bush Administration to pull Ecuador’s special trade preferences unless Ecuador dismisses the $16 billion lawsuit against the company." -Amazon Watch)
Luckily for the 'little indians', they just might have Obama on their side..What Chevron does with the it's.. 'human energy'.
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"On July 15 the Richmond, California City Council has a chance to make history. On that day it could be the first city in the United States to decide to protect the health of its residents and stand up to the Chevron oil company and impose a cap on its plans for further expansion.
To do that the council will have to turn down Chevron Richmond's proposed "Energy & Hydrogen Renewal" project to process thicker, dirtier crude oil. On the other hand, if the council approved it, it would expand some of the Chevron refinery's most polluting processes. It will increase Chevron's emissions of toxins, heavy metals and greenhouse gases; there is the potential to increase releases of some chemicals by 5 to 50 times current levels.""On July 15 the Richmond, California City Council has a chance to make history.... more
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Chevron Corp. CEO David O'Reilly says Big Oil is not to blame for skyrocketing gas prices.
In an interview Tuesday with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "The Situation Room," O'Reilly said high demand and a short supply of crude oil were key factors causing gas prices to spike. Despite reports of record profits among major oil companies, O'Reilly downplayed a recent poll in which Americans said corporate avarice played a role.
O'Reilly also discussed President Bush's and GOP presumptive presidential nominee Sen. John McCain's proposal to lift the ban on new offshore drilling as well as presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama's call for taxing companies' windfall profits.
The following is an edited version of the show's transcript:
Blitzer: You know you have -- you and ExxonMobil, the Big Oil companies --have a huge public relations problem. In all the recent polls, when the American public is asked, who do you blame for these huge gas prices at the pump, they -- more than any other single source -- they blame Big Oil. They blame you. What's going on? Video Watch Blitzer grill O'Reilly »
O'Reilly: Well, I don't think they blame us as much as you think. It looks to me like there's a lot of blame to go around.
Blitzer: There's other blame, but more than any other single source, they blame Big Oil.
O'Reilly: It depends on the poll you look at.Chevron Corp. CEO David O'Reilly says Big Oil is not to blame for skyrocketing... more
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It was the second time this year that the executives of Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp., BP America Inc., ConocoPhillips Co. and Shell Oil Co. had been summoned to testify before Congress. When they came in early April oil cost about $98 a barrel. On Wednesday, it bounded past $134 a barrel for a time and gasoline cost a national average of $3.80 a gallon.
Since regular people are scrimping to pay for gasoline to go to work, Sen. Patrick Leahy wanted to make it personal for the men of Big Oil.
The executives, whose companies reported $36 billion in profits during the first three months of the year, wanted to talk about tight supplies and growing global demand. They said that while the companies made billions of dollars, they also spent billions to find and produce more oil.
But senators complained the executives were trying to come across as “hapless victims” while raking in record profits. They wanted to press the executives about public anguish over paying $60 or more to fill up a car’s gas tank.
It was the second time this year that the executives of Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron... more
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