Environmentalists across the globe are calling on Avatar director James Cameron to take up the cause of the Ecuadorians seeking justice in the largest environmental contamination case ever in the Amazon rainforest. Who knows if Cameron will agree to their requests, but it’s clear from the response that what happens in Ecuador is on the minds of Americans...
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Texaco Throws Dirt On Oil Pit, After Couple Pleaded With Company To Clean It; Both Died Of Cancer After Living Near Pit For 22 Years
The Chevron Pit is featuring a series of personal stories about how the oil contamination left behind by Texaco has impacted the people living near the oil company’s former oil sites. Chevron purchased Texaco in 2001.This...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Chevron Tells The Truth For A Change
Chevron does a good job dressing up its misinformation campaign about what happened in Ecuador when Texaco operated a faulty and substandard operation system to explore for oil and dumped over 18 billion gallons of toxic sludge into the rainforest from 1964 to 1990. It has three-inch binders full of background materials, colorful charts and snazzy...
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Chevron General Counsel Hewitt Pate Stumbles as Ecuador Problem Balloons Out of Control
Hewitt Pate
As we blogged earlier, Chevron's continuing desperation to do anything it can to derail the potential $27.3 billion liability it faces for destroying part of Ecuador's rainforest has backfired yet again –this...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Chevron Caught Misrepresenting Facts about Expert Report in Ecuador Trial
In its latest attempt to evade a $27 billion liability in Ecuador, Chevron is misrepresenting key facts about a court-appointed expert who conducted a damages assessment not to the company’s liking, representatives of the plaintiffs announced today.“Chevron is again trying to strong-arm the court by misrepresenting facts,” said Steven R. Donziger,...
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Chevron’s New CEO Ducks Spotlight Over Ecuador Issue
Pressures Washington Post & New York Times To Pull Ad, Violating Free Speech Rights in Move To Squash Criticism of Company San Francisco, CA – Chevron’s new CEO John Watson is violating the free speech rights of environmental groups with aggressive pressure tactics, involving the New York Times and the Washington Post, to quash an ad campaign...
Monday, February 1, 2010
Cancer Leads To Woman’s Death After Living Near Chevron Oil Site For 30 Years
Modesta BrionesThe Chevron Pit is featuring the first of many personal stories about how the oil contamination left behind by Texaco has impacted the people living near the oil company’s former oil sites. Chevron purchased...
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