The Chevron Pit

A blog maintained by the team working to hold oil giant Chevron accountable for its human rights and environmental abuses in Ecuador

Thursday, February 12, 2009

A Multinational Oil Company: the Real Victim?

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Chevron is looking for something new from America: sympathy. According to a blog following Latin American issues – The Latin Americanist – ...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Chevron Bribing Becomes SOP?

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We've written before about Chevron's willingness to jump into the bribing business, where expedient, paying soldiers, auditors, etc....
Monday, February 9, 2009

WTF is going on? Is Chevron just evil?

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News out of San Francisco today: Chevron, which posted a record profit of $23.8 billion in 2008 is suing a group of Nigerian villagers for ...
Friday, February 6, 2009

Director of Crude Points Out Lies

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Interesting letter to the editor in today's Washington Times . Apparently filmmaker Joe Berlinger wasn't thrilled with Chevron'...
Thursday, February 5, 2009

Great posting over at the DailyKos

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Bob Zimway over at the DailyKos has posted a fantastic series of commentaries on Chevron's Amazon disaster. I think he summed up Chevro...

Good comment on the Washington Times Story

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Oh yeah, also – I saw this comment on today's Washington Times story about Chevron in Ecuador . Thought it did a good job laying out the...

Chevron’s Washington Tricks Exposed

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The Washington Times ran an article today exposing Chevron's strategy for dealing with their huge legal liability in Ecuador: try to ge...
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...
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