The forum shopping by Chevron's General Counsel R. Hewitt Pate in Gibraltar to evade the company's $10 billion Ecuador liability seems to have backfired. We understand the desperation: largely under Pate's watch Chevron has spent an estimated $2 billion on 2,000 lawyers and 60 law firms in a futile attempt to fend off impoverished villagers...
Monday, December 21, 2015
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
The Real Facts About Gibraltar: Chevron's Lies Boosted by Paul Barrett of Businessweek
Posted on Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Chevron's illusory $28 million judgment for legal fees against an empty shell investment vehicle owned by Ecuadorian villagers in the tiny protectorate of Gibraltar is worthless -- despite the attempt by Bloomberg's Paul Barrett to build it up with his incomplete and dishonest reporting.
After largely ignoring the stunning legal setbacks to Chevron...
Media Outlets: Chevron Polluted the Crap Out of Ecuador's Amazon Rainforest
Posted on Wednesday, December 16, 2015
According to numerous independent media outlets, Chevron indeed polluted the crap out of Ecuador's Amazon region.
We have long known that three layers of courts and eight appellate judges in Ecuador unanimously confirmed Chevron's responsibility for causing the extensive oil pollution found in the affected area. Less known is the array of respected...
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Chevron Enlists Convicted Felon Conrad Black to Help Its Defense in Canada
Posted on Tuesday, December 01, 2015
With evidence against it in the Ecuador pollution case mounting, Chevron has turned to none other than convicted felon and former media titan Conrad Black to help it try to block indigenous villagers from enforcing their environmental judgment in Canada.
A few days ago Black published an op-ed article in Canada that repeated Chevron's talking...
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