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

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Movie Industry, Media Outlets Line Up Against Chevron Over Film Battle

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Chevron's latest legal maneuver to avoid its potential $27.3 billion liability for illegal dumping in Ecuador's rainforest is startl...

Trudie Styler: Chevron Trying to Restrict Constitutional Rights

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Trudie Styler -- the noted environmentalist, humanitarian, filmmaker and co-founder of the Rainforest Foundation -- took aim today at Chevr...
Friday, July 9, 2010

Chevron Lobbying Over Ecuador Lawsuit Criticized by Sierra Club, Catholic Bishops

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Chevron's long-running lobbying campaign to cancel Ecuador's trade preferences over a potential $27.3 billion environmental lawsuit ...
Monday, June 28, 2010

Chevron’s Environmental Racism

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In 1994, a year after the communities in Ecuador first field suit against Texaco for the intentional contamination of their ancestral lands,...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

Chevron Should Follow BP’s Lead

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In its negotiations with the White House to fund a $20 billion escrow account, BP could have stuck to its legal guns and followed Chevron...

Chevron’s Deepwater Drilling: Blind Faith or Dump Luck?

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Chevron has its own ticking time bomb in the Gulf of Mexico. The following article, from John Collins Rudolph, appeared on the New York Time...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Shan: Chevron Loses a Round in First Amendment Battle over Ecuador Film Footage

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The below post appeared on ChevroninEcuador.com today – take a look below or after the jump : Victory for First Amendment, Filmmakers, &...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Norman Lear Latest to Blast Chevron for Trying to Seize Ecuador Film Footage

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This article, by Norman Lear, appeared today on The Huffington Post : Was Oil Named 'Crude' Because of the Way Oil Companies Do Busi...
Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Chevron’s Ecuador Corruption and Ricardo Reis Veiga

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The environmental crime committed by Texaco in Ecuador – and now defended by Chevron in a multi-billion litigation there – is intimately tie...
Saturday, June 5, 2010

Bob Herbert of NYT on Chevron: Rain Forest Jekyll and Hyde

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Bob Herbert's column today detailing the extent of the disaster caused by Chevron in Ecuador is not the first time his attention has tur...

Chevron Lawyer Admits Chevron Corruption

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One of Chevron's chief Ecuadorian lawyers, Rodrigo Perez Pallares, has admitted under oath that the company has been lying to courts in ...

Bob Herbert of NYT: Chevron Has Its Own BP Disaster In Ecuador

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The following article appeared in today's New York Times : Disaster in the Amazon By BOB HERBERT BP’s calamitous behav...
Friday, June 4, 2010

Redford: Chevron Move to Seize Ecuador Film Footage "Shocking"

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The below article appeared on The Huffington Post today: Joe Berlinger vs. Chevron: Why We Must All Defend Independent Filmmaking I hav...
Thursday, June 3, 2010

NY Times: Media Companies Join Filmmaker in Opposing Chevron

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This article appeared on the New York Times "ArtsBeat" blog yesterday : Media Companies File Brief on Behalf of Filmmaker in Chev...
Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Pat Murphy: Chevron’s Bogus Blogger Up to Old Tricks

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Surprise, surprise: Pat Murphy, purveyor of the SanFranciscoSentinel.com (a small online "newspaper" that sells editorial contro...
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