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...

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No Money, Power or Influence, But the Ecuadorians Are Still Here, Fighting Chevron

A portrait of this Ecuadorian couple’s family members who died from cancer in a community contaminated by Chevron Reposted from Medium. I am sitting now in Ontario Superior Court wondering how the hell I got here but...

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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...

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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...

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Chevron Once Again Spouts Tired Excuses (aka Lies) for Ignoring Toxic Mess in Ecuador

Reposted from Medium. Today a group of indigenous Ecuadorians take their long-running fight against Chevron to a Canadian court to try and seize company assets there as payment for a $9.5 billion Ecuador judgment against...

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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...

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