Monday, October 31, 2016

Monday, September 19, 2016

Calling Chevron's Bluff

Reposted from Eye on the Amazon. One of the worst oil-related disasters in history occurred when Texaco, later purchased by oil giant Chevron, deliberately dumped 18 billion gallons of toxic waste into the Ecuadorian...

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Chevron's Elephant in the Room

Oil Giant's 53-Day Fraud, Denying Ecuadorians Justice in Ecuador Contamination Case Reposted from Medium. Today an elephant is lurking in a Canadian court where a group of Ecuadorian indigenous are seeking to enforce a $9.5 billion Ecuador judgment against Chevron for one of the largest environmental disasters in history. (See recent Medium piece.) The...

Monday, September 12, 2016

The Beginning of the End: Day One of Chevron's Legal Farce Comes to Canada

The best part of Day One of Chevron's enforcement trial is that it has started. For the oil giant and its odyssey in Ecuador, this could be the beginning of the end. The first day of the long-awaited trial to enforce the $9.5 billion environmental judgment against Chevron began with the company flooding the courtroom with 20 lawyers to argue a simple...

Chevron’s "Hell Freezes Over" Tour

Reposted from Eye on the Amazon. One might wonder why one of the most clear-cut cases of environmental destruction and criminal corporate acts will be heard in yet another courtroom twenty-three years after the first...

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Power Protecting Power (the Chevron Rulings)

Reposted from Medium. Power protects power. This is a lesson to learn early in life when it comes to matters of the haves and have-nots of the world. Such is the case of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision this week in the 23-year-old lawsuit, brought by a group of Ecuadorian indigenous peoples against Chevron for one of the largest oil contamination...

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Chevron's Ted Boutrous Thoroughly Embarrassed Himself Last Week

Reposted from Huffington Post. Ted Boutrous embarrassed himself in Huffington Post this week in an apparent attempt to "up the crazy" as the trial to seize Chevron's assets in Canada looms. It appears the "Big Lie" sickness...

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

In Chevron's Ecuador Case, Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied But, Hey, Football Season's About to Begin

Reposted from Huffington Post. What does superstar quarterback Tom Brady and a group of Ecuadorian indigenous tribes suing Chevron for massive oil contamination have in common? They both had lawsuits heard in U.S. federal trial court and appealed to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan. That, however, is where any similarity ends.Brady...