Join us on:
An appeals court in Ecuador has just upheld the $18 billion decision against Chevron for its massive oil pollution in the Amazon. Reuters reports: Ecuador court upholds $18 bln ruling against Chevron LAGO AGRIO, Ecuador Jan 3 (Reuters) – An Ecuadorean appeals court on Tuesday upheld a ruling that Chevron Corp should pay $18 billion in [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 4, 2011
The saga of Chevron’s self-described “dirty tricks guy” continues. As a refresher: Diego Borja is the guy who claimed in 2009 that he had video showing the Ecuadorean judge presiding over the lawsuit against Chevron accepting a bribe. Chevron breathlessly announced the bribery “scandal” and claimed Borja was just a concerned citizen with no connection [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 27, 2011
Oppenheimer’s Fadel Gheit is one of the top oil industry analysts in the world. What he says carries a lot of weight. And right now, he’s saying that it’s time for Chevron to reach a settlement in Ecuador. Specifically, Gheit is saying that a recent decision by the US Supreme Court to hear a case [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 22, 2011
Earlier this week, a New York appeals court toppled the legal house of cards Chevron built to shield itself from having to clean up its oil contamination in the Ecuadorean Amazon. Now a series of diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks has gone and made what was already a very bad week for Chevron even worse. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Some of the world’s hottest DJs, including Govinda, Bluetech, and DJ Spooky, teamed up with Indigenous musicians from the Amazon to create some truly inspirational music. Now it’s your turn to inspire and be inspired by their beats. Earthdance International, Critical Beats for the Climate, and Rainforest Action Network are teaming up to promote the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Yesterday, Chevron’s legal strategy to evade cleaning up its oil pollution in Ecuador went off the rails. An appeals court in New York lifted a ban on the $18 billion judgment against the company for contaminating the Amazon. The decision comes after a hearing last Friday in which Chevron’s lawyers were all but laughed out [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Chevron PR spokesman Kent Robertson’s constant efforts to spin court proceedings to fit his company’s twisted version of events in Ecuador may be about to blow up in his face in a big way. Perceiving a small victory for his obscenely profitable oil company over the Indigenous and rural Ecuadoreans seeking justice for the deliberate [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Over the past few weeks we’ve told you a lot about the courageous Ecuadoreans who traveled to America to take their calls for justice directly to Chevron’s management and board at the company’s annual shareholder meeting. But it’s important to note that the members of the Ecuadorean delegation were only the latest generation battling the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 8, 2011
This post was written by James Polster, author of A Guest In The Jungle, a novel that “explores the intense nuances of the conflict between civilization and nature”. A Guest In The Jungle has just been reissued, and Jim was kind enough to tell us a bit about how the book came to be in [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Last week three courageous Ecuadoreans traveled from the Amazon to Chevron’s shareholder meeting in San Ramon, CA to take their calls for justice directly to the company’s management, board, and shareholders. Even I was shocked by Chevron’s callousness and disregard for the human suffering caused by its business operations. I wrote a post last Wednesday [...]
Continue reading...
Grab the RSS feed for Updates!
(What's this? — Learn more about RSS)
Twitter Updates
Our response to @MittRomney's out of touch response to #BofA protest in #CLT last week: http://t.co/6jGh8huQ
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
3 Comments