Friday, January 23, 2009

Film Documenting Chevron’s Toxic Legacy in Ecuador Gaining Momentum

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Crude, the documentary at the Sundance film festival we blogged about earlier this week seems to be getting some huge momentum. Over the pas...
Sunday, January 18, 2009

Chevron’s Amazon Disaster Lands at Sundance; "Crude" - Press Kit Attached

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Apparently a new documentary – appropriately entitled "Crude" - from Emmy-award winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger highlighting the ...
Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Chevron Wins Dubious Honor: Named to “10 Worst Corporations of 2008”

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According to MoneyWeb , as 2008 ushered in a financial tsunami that became the biggest economic shakedown since the Great Depression, wide s...
Monday, January 5, 2009

Science Doesn’t Lie. Or Does It?

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Katie Bezrouch over at Imagine 2050 hit on an interesting thread last week: Chevron has apparently commissioned "scientific studies...
Wednesday, December 31, 2008

William J. Haynes: What Was Chevron Thinking?

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John Geluardi - author of The Snitch blog over at SF Weekly - put out a post last week about William Haynes, calling him "Chevron'...

Bloomberg Article Details Health Impact of Chevron's Ecuadorian Legacy

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We've written at some length about the tremendous damage that Chevron's activities in Ecuador have caused to the local communities i...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

A couple of great stories on the mess Chevron left in Ecuador...

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We just saw that there have been a couple of great articles published recently regarding Chevron and Ecuador - Chris Kraul from the L.A. Tim...
Monday, December 22, 2008

The Real Human Energy

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Over the past several months Chevron has rolled out a huge public relations campaign - their "human energy" campaign - (spending o...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Corruption: Shouldn’t We All Just Say No?

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As I stumbled through the internet doing some follow-up research on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) (following up on my post from...
Thursday, December 11, 2008

U.S. Congressman Jim McGovern: Chevron’s Legacy in Ecuador Left Me “Angry and Ashamed”

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In an impassioned speech on the floor of Congress last night Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) spoke about the environmental degradation an...
Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Why The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Needs Reform

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As the Bowoto v. Chevron trial came to a conclusion in San Francisco, a disturbing trend has emerged that raises questions about Chevron...
Monday, November 24, 2008

Charles James: Chevron's In-House Karl Rove

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Since Scott Gilmore is doing a great job chronicling the day-to-day of the landmark human rights trial of Bowoto v. Chevron, I thoug...
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Bowoto v. Chevron – The Flamingo Defense:

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Bowoto v. Chevron continued on Wednesday, the second full day of the trial, with the examination of the plaintiff's expert and two witn...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Landmark Human Rights Trial Continues – Opening Statements and More:

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Opening arguments began in the landmark Bowoto v. Chevron case today, with the plaintiffs launching into an emotional outline of the events ...
Monday, October 27, 2008

Landmark Human Rights Litigation has Chevron on the Run

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Just in: A landmark human rights trial, Bowoto v. Chevron , has finally begun in federal court in San Francisco, and a handful of Nigerian v...