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The courthouse stands four stories high along the main drag of Lago Agrio. Like all other buildings in the town, the weather has gotten the best of it. It is tropically dilapidated. The colors, off-white with yellow trim, are ruined. The cement shows signs of crumbling, and from up close the black mold appears to [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 2, 2012
This morning I accompanied Emergildo Criollo, leader of the Cofan people, from his home in the dusty outskirts of Lago Agrio (the oil camp turned boom town that Texaco founded) to a press conference in Quito regarding a ruling issued late yesterday afternoon by the appellate court in Sucumbios rejecting Chevron’s latest attempt to block [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 11, 2012
As detailed in our video, “Great Moments In Stupid Chevron PR” (view it below), Chevron will say anything to evade its responsibility to clean up its toxic mess in Ecuador. The company has tried just about every dirty trick it could come up with, too. Chevron’s immediate response to the decision in Ecuador was to [...]
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, September 15, 2011
After poisoning his community and taking his family from him, Chevron is heaping disrespect on Servio Curipoma by trying to pretend he doesn’t exist, and that his mother, father, and sister never existed. We can’t let Chevron get away with it. Servio is a farmer who lives in the Ecuadorean Amazon. He lost both of [...]
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...Thursday, May 26, 2011
This is like a John Grisham thriller put onto a reality show for all of us to see. Months ago, it was announced that Alpha Natural Resources began the process of acquiring coal criminal Massey Energy. Massey, long known for destroying Appalachia’s mountains with mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining and responsible for killing 29 of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 11, 2011
The ever-soaring price of gas may have Chevron’s stock riding high, but the company is still facing a massive liability in Ecuador. An independent report released widely today reveals that, despite Chevron’s claims to the contrary, the $18 billion court judgment against the oil giant in Ecuador poses serious financial and operational risks to the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 5, 2011
No, this is not the latest brilliant satirical piece written by the folks over at The Onion. Chevron really has just released a “Corporate Responsibility Report” to highlight “companywide [sic] performance including safety, environmental stewardship, social investments and human rights.” Having read that, you’re probably thinking, “Come on, Mike, give us a break. This has [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 22, 2011
From the get-go, we pointed out that the RICO suit Chevron filed against the Ecuadoreans suing the company for massive environmental pollution in the Amazon would be laugh-out-loud funny if it wasn’t so insulting and it didn’t seem so likely that Chevron was actually serious. Well, it turns out Chevron and its lawyers weren’t really [...]
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