For Chevron and its CEO John Watson, 2017 was a very bad year for the company's campaign to evade paying a $9.5 billion environmental liability (now $12b with interest) in Ecuador.
Watson in 2017 not only suffered a major legal setback in the Ecuador case in Canada, he also was severely criticized by major investors who lashed out over his "material...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Thursday, November 9, 2017
21-0: Ecuadorian Communities Are Dominating Chevron In Canada's Appellate Courts
Chevron's strategy to block enforcement of its $9.5 billion environmental liability in Canada is on the rocks. The company now has lost three straight decisions (see here, here, and here) in Canada's appellate courts to Ecuadorian indigenous peoples and farmer communities. To cover up this debacle, Chevron General Counsel R. Hewitt Pate continues to...
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
The Takeaway: Chevron CEO Big Loser in Latest Canada Court Decision Over Ecuador Pollution Judgment
The latest attempt by Chevron CEO John Watson to foist his company's RICO fraud from the United States onto Canadian courts just got slapped down by a three-judge panel from the Ontario Court of Appeal. This suggests the oil giant faces major hurdles in Canada in its campaign to evade enforcement of a $12 billion liability owed to Ecuadorian indigenous...
Monday, October 16, 2017
Chevron Lawyer Larry Lowenstein Continues to Mislead Canadian Courts About Company's Fraud in Ecuador
To help Chevron block enforcement of the Ecuador environment judgment in Canada, company lawyer and Osler partner Larry Lowenstein flat-out lied last week to a panel of three judges on the Ontario Court of Appeal in Toronto. It is the vulnerable indigenous communities in Ecuador who pay the price for Lowenstein's bad form in service of one of the world's...
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Us and Them: Affected Peoples vs. Chevron in Canada
Reposted from Eye on the Amazon
The latest chapter in the decades-long struggle seeking justice for Chevron's crimes in Ecuador is taking place in Canada right now. Unfortunately, as the years grind by the issues being debated get further and further away from the substantive problems of environmental contamination and human suffering, and the process...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Chevron CEO Watson Leaves a Legacy of Toxic Waste
Reposted from Eye on the Amazon
After seven dreadful years, Chevron CEO John Watson recently made a surprise announcement that he is finally slinking off with his tail between his legs. Yet the world will continue to suffer...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Chevron CEO Watson Tarred His Own Legacy by Fumbling Environmental Issues
Burdened with a series of intractable problems, Chevron CEO John Watson announced this week that he is stepping down after seven years at the helm of America's second-largest energy company. He will be remembered far more for saddling Chevron with huge environmental liabilities than for delivering value to shareholders.
Watson's legacy is to leave...
Monday, August 14, 2017
Haunted by Ecuador Judgment, Chevron Now Trying to Impose $32 Million "Fine" On Lawyer Who Beat It In Court
While fossil fuel giant Chevron still refuses to pay its $12 billion environmental judgment to the indigenous groups it poisoned in Ecuador, company CEO John Watson apparently has found the time to try to impose a massive $32 million liability on the solo human rights lawyer who beat his company in court.
As background, it is undeniable that Harvard...
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Bloomberg Should Fire Legal Reporter Paul Barrett For His Blatant Bias
When is Bloomberg going to finally wake up and fire reporter Paul Barrett for his overall crappy reporting and his repeated bias in favor of Chevron in its scorched-earth campaign to evade paying the $12 billion Ecuador environmental judgment?
The latest example of Barrett's pro-business "reporting" comes from a Bloomberg article last week about the...
Thursday, June 22, 2017
George Mason Professor Krauss Is Chevron's New Stooge in Ecuador Pollution Case
Note to George Mason University law students: exercise extreme caution when dealing with Professor Michael I. Krauss, a self-proclaimed "expert" in ethics who in his spare time shills for Chevron's criminal cover-up of its toxic dumping in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest. You might want to ask Krauss in his next ethics class if his obvious ties to Chevron...
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