Tag: Chevron
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Chevron Hides Evidence That Proves Guilt in Ecuador Rainforest Contamination Case
The playbook details how the company hid evidence of contamination during an eight-year …
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Ecuadorians 40+ Year Fight Against Chevron Continues Into 2014
“This is the Court of Chancery … which gives to monied might the means abundantly of wearying out the right, which so exhausts finances, patience, courage, hope, so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart …” — Charles Dickens, Bleak House The court proceedings in the case of the 21st century, between multinational oil giant…
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Significant Victory for Ecuadorians in Oil Pollution Case Against Chevron
Indigenous and farmer communities in Ecuador scored a major victory over Chevron yesterday when an Ontario appeals court ruled they have the right to pursue enforcement of a $9.5 billion Ecuadorian court judgment against Chevron’s assets in Canada. [caption id="attachment_315757" align="alignnone" width="500"] Chevron used substandard methods to handle toxic waste derived from oil production at…
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Ecuadorians Fight for Justice in Landmark Chevron Trial, Danny Glover Visits Contaminated Rainforest in Support
American actor and activist Danny Glover arrived in Ecuador yesterday to visit an area of the Amazon rainforest were the multinational oil giant Chevron operated decades ago, and was sentenced by a local court to pay a multibillion-dollar fine for a massive environmental contamination, according to a CSR Wire press release. The actor will visit the former oil field Aguarico…
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New Pipeline Threatens Wetlands in Gulf Coast Communities
In a region still scarred by the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Plains Southcap LLC is building a pipeline meant to carry conventional crude oil from Alabama to Mississippi, threatening waterways in both states.