Chevron in Ecuador

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Served by Chevron, and It Just Warms Us Up

24 December 2012 | Eye on the Amazon

When a giant corporation like Chevron bothers to subpoena a small nonprofit like Amazon Watch, we know our actions are hitting hard. At that moment, I knew we had been doing something right.     Read more...

Star Witness Backfires Against Chevron

19 December 2012 | The Chevron Pit

Chevron’s new “witness” in the Ecuador case, Fernando Reyes, is the latest in a long line of company operatives whose comments have backfired against the oil giant in the long-running environmental litigation in Ecuador.     Read more...

New York State Comptroller DiNapoli Hits Back at Chevron over Ecuador

DiNapoli calls Chevron’s ethical complaint "baseless"
19 December 2012 | Responsible Investor

Thomas DiNapoli, who as New York State Comptroller is the trustee of the state's $150.3 billion retirement fund, has dismissed a complaint filed against him by Chevron which alleges that he received campaign funds for urging the firm to settle its legal battle with Ecuador over pollution in the country's rainforest. "This is a baseless attempt by big oil to intimidate me and it won't work, DiNapoli said.     Read more...

Chevron Star "Witness" Worked On Fraudulent Remediation In Ecuador

19 December 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Washington, DC – Chevron's new star "witness" in Ecuador, Fernando Reyes, worked for the oil giant on its fraudulent remediation in the mid-1990s and later lied in his affidavit, according to a blog by the rainforest communities who won a $19.04 billion judgment against the company.     Read more...

Chevron Witness Faces Defamation Lawsuit In Ecuador for Lying In Sworn Affidavit, Lawyers Say

15 December 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Quito, Ecuador – An oil industry "witness" that Chevron unveiled this week will face a defamation lawsuit in Ecuador for lying in a sworn affidavit and for participating in the company's fraudulent remediation to evade a $19 billion liability, say representatives of the villagers who brought the lawsuit.     Read more...

Chevron Trying to Block Release of Documents Related to Its Corruption in Ecuador, Records Show

14 December 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Washington, DC – As part of his ongoing campaign to mislead shareholders, Chevron CEO John Watson is engaged in a wide-ranging litigation strategy to use courts to block the release of internal company documents that would shed light on the oil giant’s fraud and corruption that led to a $19 billion liability in Ecuador, court records show.     Read more...

Chevron's Self-Deluded CEO John Watson

13 December 2012 | The Chevron Pit

Shareholders can now reasonably question whether Chevron CEO John Watson is fit to lead America’s second-largest energy company. Increasingly, Watson is acting like a palace dictator surrounded by yes men who only deliver good news as the streets rage in protest.     Read more...

Chevron Aims at an Activist Shareholder

8 December 2012 | The New York Times

Public corporations routinely tell shareholders that their views matter. So it might seem odd that last month Chevron subpoenaed one of its investors, Trillium Asset Management, which has sponsored numerous shareholder proposals at Chevron over the years.     Read more...

Ecuador's President Says Chevron Needs to Abide by Court Ruling

4 December 2012 | Dow Jones Newswires

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said Tuesday that Chevron needs to abide by a court order requiring it to pay $19 billion to indigenous groups after it lost a suit involving environmental-damage claims in Ecuador.     Read more...

Top Latin America Analyst Says $19 Billion Ecuador Judgment Will Be Enforced Against Chevron

3 December 2012 | The Chevron Pit

An influential Latin America investor analyst this week concluded that the $19 billion Ecuador judgment “will be enforced” and only “risk tolerant investors” with a long-term investment plans should buy Chevron’s stock. The title of the report: Chevron, A Dividend Champion In Trouble.     Read more...

Chevron Stock Down Because of $19 Billion Ecuador Judgment, Analyst Concludes

3 December 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – Chevron's stock price is down because of the company's failure to properly contain the fallout from its $19 billion Ecuador liability.     Read more...

Ontario Should Recognize Ecuadorean Ruling Against Chevron: Lawyer

30 November 2012 | The Globe and Mail

"These plaintiffs have waited 20 years for this, to get this judgment," Mr. Lenczner told Mr. Justice David Brown of the Ontario Superior Court.     Read more...

Confronted Publicly, Chevron CEO John Watson Misleads Shareholders over $19 Billion Ecuador Liability

30 November 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – Confronted publicly about a $19 billion Ecuador liability for causing environmental damage, Chevron CEO John Watson continued an increasingly personal campaign to mislead shareholders and hide his personal conflicts of interest over the case, representatives of the rainforest communities charged.     Read more...

Chevron Says Argentina Future Clouded by Seizure of Assets for $19 Billion Ecuador Judgment

29 November 2012 | Associated Press

Buenos Aires, Argentina – Chevron Corp.'s Argentina subsidiary ran full-page ads in the nation's leading newspapers Thursday saying that its operations have been complicated by a court order freezing its earnings.     Read more...

Holding Chevron Accountable

What will it take for the energy giant to pay out the billions of dollars it owes for the pollution of the Amazon?
28 November 2012 | Al Jazeera

After decades of oil drilling, they have seen their land destroyed, and their waters polluted. But members of Ecuador's indigenous communities have yet to see a single penny for the damage inflicted on their lives by Chevron and its subsidiary, Texaco.     Read more...

Chevron Ignores Safety Standards At California Refinery Where 19 Fires, Spills & Explosions Have Occurred Since 1989

28 November 2012 | The Chevron Pit

About 4,800 Richmond, California residents have sued Chevron for negligence at an oil refinery and putting them at risk by not issuing public health warnings immediately after a recent explosion, the 19th disaster to have occurred at the refinery since 1989.     Read more...

Chevron Is Newly Concerned About Politicians Being Influenced by Money

21 November 2012 | Grist

We now have an example of irony that will stand the test of time. Chevron has filed a complaint against the comptroller of New York, suggesting that he was unduly influenced to criticize the company due to campaign contributions he received.     Read more...

Chevron Threatens to Shut Down Argentina Operations Over Ecuador Lawsuit

20 November 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Buenos Aires, Argentina – In a clear effort to apply political pressure to judges, Chevron is threatening to bankrupt the company's subsidiaries in Argentina unless an asset freeze order issued against $2 billion of the oil giant's assets is lifted, according to news reports.     Read more...

A Race For Time? Chevron Desperate to Extort Its Way Out of Paying $19 Billion Ecuador Judgment

20 November 2012 | The Chevron Pit

Chevron is trying to scare Argentina government officials by saying its subsidiaries there will go bankrupt and, as a result, have to close down its operations unless, of course, the government pressures the courts to unfreeze their assets. Or, in other words, extortion: If you don't tell your courts how to rule, we'll shut down our investments.     Read more...

Gibson Dunn, Chevron Suffer Another Devastating Setback In $19 Billion Ecuador Case

19 November 2012 | The Chevron Pit

The U.S. law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher is getting hit with a new round of hurt because of its bungling of Chevron’s Ecuador environmental case.     Read more...

Argentina Freeze Order Devastating for Chevron, Gibson Dunn

19 November 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – A court order freezing Chevron assets in Argentina represents yet another devastating setback for the oil giant and its lead American law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, according to a new blog posted on The Chevron Pit.     Read more...

Did President Obama & His Justice Department Extort Money From BP?

16 November 2012 | The Chevron Pit

Based on legal arguments being made in a U.S. court, Chevron would have you believe so. Chevron has accused the Ecuadorian indigenous groups and their lawyers suing the oil giant for massive oil contamination in the Amazon rainforest of extorting money from the company by applying pressure on its executives to settle.     Read more...

Chevron's Argentina Woes Deeper Than Thought, Reports Trade Publication

16 November 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Buenos Aires, Argentina – Chevron is in even deeper trouble than thought in Argentina after a judge there froze the oil giant's assets to comply with a $19 billion court judgment in Ecuador, according to reporting by Platts' Oilgram, a leading oil industry trade publication.     Read more...

BP Held Accountable for Deaths & Oil Spill; Chevron Remains Fugitive from Justice

15 November 2012 | The Chevron Pit

Today BP got hit with four arrests for manslaughter and lying to Congress and $3 to $5 billion in federal fines for the ACCIDENTAL oil spill that resulted in 11 deaths and an estimated $40 billion plus in damages to individuals and local businesses. This news is in stark contrast to the legal battle against Chevron for massive oil contamination in Ecuador.     Read more...

Chevron Trying to Shield Assets from $19 Billion Ecuador Judgment

13 November 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Quito, Ecuador Chevron is now trying to evade paying the historic $19 billion judgment in Ecuador by claiming assets in its 73 subsidiaries around the world should be shielded from collection actions.     Read more...

Chevron's Latest "Defense" in Ecuador Case: Hide Assets in Subsidiaries

12 November 2012 | The Chevron Pit

After a dreadful series of legal setbacks, it sure didn't take long for Chevron to come up with a new tricked-up defense to evade the $19 billion Ecuador environmental judgment. Like Chevron's many other failed defenses in the Ecuador case, this one won't wash either.     Read more...

Shareholder Shocker: Chevron's Assets Frozen in Argentina

9 November 2012 | Eye on the Amazon

The internet exploded Wednesday with news that an Argentinian judge ordered seizure of Chevron's in-country assets in what could be the first of many rulings enforcing a $19 billion judgment from an Ecuadorian court.     Read more...

Chevron Assets Frozen in Argentina over Ecuador Case

7 November 2012 | AFP

Buenos Aires, Argentina – An Argentine judge on Wednesday froze Chevron's assets at the request of a court in Ecuador, where the oil giant was ordered to pay $19 billion for environmental damage from years of unchecked pollution in the Amazon attributed to Texaco Petroleum, which Chevron acquired in 2001.     Read more...

Argentine Judge Slaps Embargo on $19 Billion in Chevron Assets

7 November 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

In a major blow to Chevron's effort to avoid paying a historic $19 billion environmental judgment in Ecuador, an Argentine judge today signed the first of what is expected to be many orders freezing billions of dollars of assets owned by the U.S. oil company.     Read more...

Argentine Judge Freezes Chevron Assets

7 November 2012 | Financial Times

Buenos Aires, Argentina – An Argentine judge has ordered the immediate freeze of the assets of Chevron, the US oil major, in the South American country to enforce an Ecuadorean court order awarding $19 billion in damages to Amazonian villagers over environmental contamination.     Read more...

Argentine Judge Embargoes Chevron Assets on Spill

7 November 2012 | San Francisco Chronicle

Buenos Aires, Argentina – An Argentine judge embargoed Chevron Corp.'s assets in Argentina to carry out an Ecuadorean court order that awarded $19 billion to plaintiffs in an environmental damage lawsuit in the Amazon.     Read more...

Chevron Subpoenas Google and Others for Private Email Info

The oil giant goes fishing for private data on activists, attorneys, and journalists connected to its famous Ecuador lawsuit
3 November 2012 | Mother Jones

Most of the dozens of targets of Chevron's massive "fishing expedition" are not directly tied to the original lawsuit against the company or its current legal claims; they include the plantiff attorney's summer intern who only worked on the case briefly in 2007, a writer who worked for a non-profit on behalf of the affected Amazon communities, and an environmental activist in Ecuador who fears that Chevron could use information about his whereabouts to intimidate or harass him or pass it along to third parties "that could do the same or worse."     Read more...

Not Chump Change: $2 Billion in Chevron Assets Likely Frozen in Argentina Soon

2 November 2012 | The Chevron Pit

The Ecuadorians who recently won a $19 billion judgment against Chevron for oil contamination in the Amazon rainforest have filed a lawsuit in Argentina, asking a court to freeze $2 billion in Chevron's Argentina assets as partial payment for the judgment.     Read more...

Ecuadoreans Seeking Chevron's Argentine Assets to Enforce $19 Billion Oil Spills Judgment

1 November 2012 | Associated Press

Buenos Aires, Argentina – Lawyers for Amazonian Indians are seeking the seizure of $2 billion of Chevron Corp.'s assets in Argentina as they try to collect an $18.7 billion environmental judgment won in Ecuador last year.     Read more...

Ecuadoreans Eye Assets of Chevron in Argentina

1 November 2012 | Courthouse News Service

Still angling to collect a $19 billion environmental judgment against Chevron, a group of indigenous Ecuadoreans say they are filing an enforcement action Thursday in Argentina.     Read more...

Ecuador Villagers Seek $2 Billion of Chevron Assets In Argentina

1 November 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Buenos Aires, Argentina – Indigenous groups and villagers from Ecuador are filing suit today to freeze an estimated $2 billion of Chevron assets in Argentina to help pay for a remediation of the extensive toxic pollution left by the oil giant on their ancestral lands in the Amazon rainforest, representatives of the communities announced.     Read more...

Ecuador Plaintiffs to Sue Chevron in Argentina, Colombia

Suit against Chevron in Argentina and Colombia follows similar attempts in Brazil, Canada
1 November 2012 | Dow Jones

Buenos Aires, Argentina – A multibillion-dollar legal battle between Ecuadorean indigenous groups and Chevron Corp. (CVX) has moved to Argentina and Colombia, where lawyers say the company can be held responsible for environmental damage claims in Ecuador.     Read more...

Ecuadorians to Sue Chevron in Argentina over Pollution

31 October 2012 | BBC News

Juan Pablo Sainz, one of the lawyers representing the Ecuadorean group, said they would ask for Chevron's assets in Argentina "to be frozen, to prevent Chevron from selling them".     Read more...

Indigenous Plaintiffs Score Two Victories in Battle Against Chevron

24 October 2012 | Indian Country Today

Indigenous and rural plaintiffs from Lago Agrio, Ecuador have won two battles recently in their efforts to sue the U.S. based oil company Chevron: one in Ecuador and the other in the United States.     Read more...

Privacy Group Enters Chevron's Amazon Fray

Chevron wants to harass and intimidate critics of a massive oil contamination in Ecuador with intrusive subpoenas of more than 70 email accounts, privacy advocates say
23 October 2012 | Courthouse News Service

Chevron hit Internet companies with subpoenas asking for information on dozens of email accounts, in a maneuver that troubled the digital civil liberties watchdogs at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Joining up with Earthrights International, the EFF submitted a 34-page amicus brief arguing that the subpoenas would intrude on the privacy – and possibly safety – of the John Doe recipients.     Read more...

Chevron CEO John Watson Lied to Shareholders About Not Having Assets In Ecuador

19 October 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Quito, Ecuador – A court decision this week in Ecuador to freeze an estimated $200 million of Chevron assets is clear evidence that the oil giant's CEO and General Counsel were lying to shareholders when they repeatedly claimed the company had no assets in the country.     Read more...

Chevron's Ecuador $19 billion Pollution Problem Now An Issue in Florida Senate Race

18 October 2012 | The Chevron Pit

Chevron's oil-related catastrophe in Ecuador is now an issue in the hotly-contested Florida Senate race between Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson and his challenger, Republican Connie Mack.     Read more...

Chevron Dealt New Blow in Ecuador Pollution Case

Ecuadorean plaintiffs say they have made first step towards collecting $19 billion in damages from the US oil company
17 October 2012 | The Guardian

Ecuadorean plaintiffs on Tuesday said an order issued by a court lets them seize $200 million worth of assets belonging to Chevron in a new legal blow to the US oil company.     Read more...

Ecuador Court Awards $200 Million in Chevron Receivables to Plaintiffs

16 October 2012 | Dow Jones Newswires

Quito, Ecuador – An Ecuadorean court ruled that plaintiffs of an environmental lawsuit against Chevron should receive about $200 million in receivables that the company stood to collect in the South American country.     Read more...

Court Grants Ecuador Villagers First Big Victory Against Chevron Assets

16 October 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Quito, Ecuador – Rainforest villagers from Ecuador scored their first significant collection victory against Chevron’s assets this week in their attempt to enforce the historic $19 billion judgment against the oil giant after it was found to have caused cancers and environmental damage to ancestral lands in the Amazon.     Read more...

Chevron Facing Wall Street Criticism Over $19 Billion Ecuador Liability

15 October 2012 | The Chevron Pit

Wall Street analysts rarely take controversial positions on publicly traded companies whose stock is doing well. But Chevron’s mishandling of its $19 billion liability in Ecuador for dumping toxins into the Amazon is beginning to look like the exception.     Read more...

Ted Olson Loses a Big One for Chevron Before the U.S. Supreme Court

Ted Olson needs to learn that it’s hard to put lipstick on Chevron's pig in Ecuador
10 October 2012 | The Chevron Pit

In yet another setback for Chevron, the U.S. Supreme Court this week declined a petition signed by Olson to restore the unprecedented global “injunction” obtained last year by the company purporting to block enforcement of the $19 billion Ecuador court judgment. That injunction – imposed by controversial federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan – provoked an uproar in the international legal community and was unanimously reversed by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.      Read more...

Chevron Defeat at Supreme Court Part of Growing Hostility of U.S. Judiciary Toward Oil Giant

10 October 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Washington, DC – The U.S. Supreme Court's refusal this week to hear Chevron's appeal of its $19 billion liability in Ecuador is the latest in a long string of courtroom setbacks suffered by the oil giant in the historic environmental case.     Read more...

U.S. Supreme Court Squelches Chevron Appeal on Ecuador Case

9 October 2012 | The Chevron Pit

The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected Chevron's latest attempt to block global enforcement of a historic $19 billion environmental judgment from Ecuador's courts, removing another hurdle for rainforest indigenous groups as they continue their efforts to seize billions of dollars of Chevron assets around the world.     Read more...

U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Chevron Appeal in Ecuador Pollution Case

Court refuses to block judgment won by Lago Agrio residents over Amazon pollution by Texaco, now part of Chevron
9 October 2012 | Reuters

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a bid by Chevron to block an $18.2 billion judgment against the company in a pollution case in Ecuador, which residents won in February 2011 over pollution of the Amazon jungle and resulting damage to their health.     Read more...

U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Chevron Appeal In $19 Billion Ecuador Environmental Case

9 October 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected Chevron's latest attempt to block global enforcement of a historic $19 billion environmental judgment from Ecuador's courts, removing another hurdle for rainforest indigenous groups as they continue their efforts to seize billions of dollars of Chevron assets around the world.     Read more...

Chevron Scared To Return ACLU's Calls Over Private Emails

6 October 2012 | The Chevron Pit

Lawyers from the ACLU called Chevron to complain about trying to get personal data from the Google Gmail account of their client, a writer and law professor who blogs about legal issues, including the $19 billion judgment out of Ecuador holding Chevron accountable for the massive contamination of the Amazon rainforest.      Read more...

Why Is Chevron Trying to Intimidate Journalists? And Why is Google Helping Them?

5 October 2012 | The Chevron Pit

Graham Erion and Jeremy Bloom discuss Google's cooperation with Chevron's "fishing expedition" into people's personal emails to intimidate and harass them for supporting and, in many instances, just inquiring about the $19 billion judgment against the oil giant for massive oil contamination in the Ecuadorian rainforest.     Read more...

Richmond Residents Stand Up To Chevron

4 October 2012 | The Chevron Pit

The Richmond, CA City Council voted for a resolution pushing Chevron to become a better corporate citizen in the city that it has neglected for decades, even as its refinery pollutes and harms the health of people who live there. Take it from the Ecuadorians who have suffered at Chevron's hands for five decades in the rainforest, it will take much more than a resolution, but at least it's a start.     Read more...

From Assets to Liabilities

Are CVX shareholders ready for global cat and mouse?
4 October 2012 | Eye on the Amazon

While repo men have yet to descend upon the company's headquarters and start hauling out the furniture, one has to ask: Is the company really ready for a global game of cat and mouse? What were once major assets in 120 countries are now liabilities, hidden in plain sight.     Read more...

No Love for Chevron in U.S. Courts

2 October 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – Chevron's courtroom setbacks in the U.S. related to its $19 billion Ecuador liability are piling up as CEO John Watson faces increased shareholder pressure around the world to settle the case, according to an analysis of all legal actions filed by the oil giant in U.S. federal courts.     Read more...

Chevron Wants Access to Emails of Critics

2 October 2012 | SocialFunds.com

The oil company's latest effort to avoid paying a $19 billion judgment for extensive environmental damage in Ecuador involves trying to gain access to the private email accounts of 101 people who have worked on the case.     Read more...

Way Down Watson

1 October 2012 | Eye on the Amazon

Normally, when an executive makes a major mistake that threatens shareholder value and the financial health of the company, they get fired. But at Chevron if you make an $18 billion mistake, you get a promotion. What?     Read more...

How Chevron Squanders Big Bucks on Ecuador Case

28 September 2012 | The Chevron Pit

In a sickening example of overkill that might explain why people hate the legal profession, Chevron recently reported that it has employed 41 different law firms and almost 500 lawyers and legal assistants to fight the indigenous groups in Ecuador.     Read more...

Chevron Targeting Private Email Accounts of 101 People Linked To Ecuador Environmental Case

28 September 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – Desperate to avoid paying a $19 billion environmental judgment from Ecuador, Chevron has launched a retaliation campaign by trying to gain access to years of activity of the private email accounts of 101 people who have some connection to the lawsuit.     Read more...

Dishonest Reporting: Fortune's Roger Parloff Delivers A Hit Job for Chevron

27 September 2012 | The Chevron Pit

Fortune writer Roger Parloff has used dishonest reporting to help Chevron cover its tracks in the wake of its horrific human rights disaster in Ecuador – a disaster where Chevron admitted that predecessor company Texaco deliberately dumped more than 16 billion gallons of toxic waste into the water supply of rainforest indigenous groups as a cost-saving measure, and then tried to cover up this crime with a sham remediation and attempted bribes to the Ecuadorian government to kill off the lawsuit seeking compensation.     Read more...

U.S. Judge Sits On Documents That Tie Chevron to Corruption In Ecuador

25 September 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

San Francisco – A U.S. federal judge in San Francisco is inexplicably delaying the release of documents that would shed light on Chevron's extensive misconduct in judicial proceedings in Ecuador where it recently was hit with a $19 billion judgment for dumping toxic waste into the Amazon rainforest.      Read more...

Law and Order: Chevron's Criminal Intent

25 September 2012 | Eye on the Amazon

If Chevron is brazen and arrogant enough to deceive regulators in 2012, in the state with arguably the toughest environmental standards in the US, then imagine what it was doing in the remote Ecuadorian rainforest from 1964-1990.     Read more...

Chevron Faces U.S. Criminal Investigation For Lying About Toxic Gas Flaring

24 September 2012 | The Chevron Pit

More evidence of the cultural rot deep within Chevron's management structure has surfaced with a devastating new report in the San Francisco Chronicle that the company is now under a criminal investigation for lying to authorities over toxic gas flaring at its Bay Area refinery.     Read more...

How Chevron Lies to U.S. Courts

Gibson Dunn's Randy Mastro Continues His Mobster Approach to Ecuador Litigation
11 September 2012 | The Chevron Pit

Chevron's lead outside lawyer on the Ecuador environmental litigation, Randy Mastro, always plays fast and loose with the facts. Now he has been caught in another outright deception, with U.S. courts as the victim.     Read more...

Ecuadorians' Lawyer Fights Back In U.S. Court To Stop Chevron Lies

24 August 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – Steven Donziger filed claims against Chevron in federal court charging the oil giant with orchestrating an illegal campaign of intimidation and lies to evade paying a $19 billion court judgment for creating what experts believe is the world's worst oil-related environmental disaster.     Read more...

Lawyer for Ecuadorians Turns the Tables On Chevron and Sues Oil Giant

Chevron: Can you handle the truth about your crimes in Ecuador?
22 August 2012 | The Chevron Pit

Lawyer Steven Donziger is going after Chevron, its CEO John Watson, and its General Counsel R. Hewitt Pate for orchestrating a campaign to evade paying a $19 billion judgment in Ecuador by targeting and defaming Donziger and other members of the legal team.     Read more...

Extortion Claims Abound in Chevron's Ecuadorean Quagmire

20 August 2012 | Courthouse News

A lawyer who helped land a $19 billion judgment against Chevron in Ecuador has now lobbed extortion counterclaims against the oil giant for its efforts to discredit the verdict.     Read more...

From Ecuador to Richmond to Nigeria, Chevron Flouts Safety, Lacks Respect for Communities Where It Operates

13 August 2012 | The Huffington Post

Want to understand the back story for Chevron's latest environmental disaster in Richmond, California? Read about how Chevron essentially forced 154 of its Nigerian workers to jump from a smoking oil rig minutes before it exploded and then watch this video about Chevron's devastating human rights violations and fraudulent cover-up in Ecuador.     Read more...

Chevron Flouts Safety Standards in Its Own Backyard

10 August 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

San Ramon, CA – The backstory to Chevron's disastrous refinery explosion this week in California can be found thousands of miles away in Ecuador and Nigeria where for years vulnerable communities have been suffering the awful consequences of Chevron's greedy and conflict-ridden corporate culture.     Read more...

From Ecuador to Richmond to Nigeria, Greedy Chevron Lacks Respect for Communities Where It Operates

Flouts Safety in Backyard, Imagine What It Does in Places Where Few Are Watching
9 August 2012 | The Chevron Pit

Chevron's marketing mantra – we respect the communities where we operate – is an advertising industry joke. The mantra should say: Chevron promises it will always act as if it is above the law in the communities where it operates.     Read more...

Chevron Faces New Asset Seizures In Ecuador As Clock Ticks to Midnight Deadline

6 August 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Lago Agrio, Ecuador – After almost 19 years of litigation, the clock is now ticking down to the final hours for Chevron to pay a $19.04 billion Ecuador court judgment or officially default and face yet another lawsuit to seize its assets, this time in the South American nation.     Read more...

Chevron Faces Midnight Deadline in $19 Billion Ecuador Judgment

6 August 2012 | Environment News Service

Lago Agrio, Ecuador – U.S. oil giant Chevron has until midnight tonight to pay a US$19.04 billion Ecuador court judgment for polluting Amazon waterways or officially default and face another lawsuit to seize its assets, this time in Ecuador. Such collection lawsuits are pending against Chevron in Canada and Brazil.     Read more...

Chevron Suffers Yet Another Legal Setback in Campaign to Evade Ecuador Judgment – This Time by Judge Kaplan

31 July 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – Judge Kaplan's decision is yet another setback in a string of recent defeats for Chevron in its improper campaign to evade its legal obligation to clean up the massive environmental contamination in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest.     Read more...

Chevron Censored Shareholders Who Wanted to Challenge Management Over $19 Billion Ecuador Liability

31 July 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

San Ramon, CA – Chevron's top management appeared to be censoring shareholders who wanted to pose some tough questions about the company's $19 billion Ecuador environmental liability during its quarterly earnings call.     Read more...

U.S. Government Deals Chevron Stinging Defeat Over Ecuador Trade Preferences

2 July 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Washington, D.C. – For the sixth straight year, the United States government has flatly rejected Chevron's increasingly frantic attempts to cut trade preferences for Ecuador in what critics say is part of an unethical campaign to interfere in a private environmental litigation brought by rainforest villagers.     Read more...

Ecuador Plaintiffs Target Chevron's Assets in Brazil

28 June 2012 | Reuters

Ecuadorean plaintiffs have filed a second lawsuit outside the Andean country, this time in Brazil, in a bid to enforce an $18 billion court ruling against U.S. oil company Chevron for polluting the Amazon.     Read more...

Chevron Faces Asset Seizure In Brazil Over $18 Billion Ecuador Judgment

27 June 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Brasilia, Brazil – Villagers from Ecuador's rainforest who won a landmark court judgment against Chevron for causing massive environmental and health damage filed suit Wednesday as a first step to seize the oil giant's assets in Brazil to generate funds to remove cancer-causing toxins and oil sludge from their ancestral homelands.     Read more...

The Canadian Face of the Biggest Lawsuit in the World

13 June 2012 | The Globe and Mail

Mr. Lenczner, 69, a veteran of high-stakes court battles, has now become the Canadian face of perhaps the largest, longest-running, and most controversial lawsuit against a major company anywhere in the world.     Read more...

U.S. Appellate Court Again Rejects Chevron Allegations Over $18 Billion Ecuador Lawsuit

12 June 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Washington, D.C. – The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today dealt another setback to Chevron over its $18 billion Ecuador liability, reversing a lower court decision that allowed the oil giant access to documents from a prominent consulting group for the Amazon rainforest communities that sued the company.     Read more...

U.S. Congresswoman Seeks Probe of Chevron Over $18 Billion Ecuador Case

11 June 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Washington, DC – A U.S. Congresswoman has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to determine whether Chevron is violating securities laws related to a court finding that it deliberately dumped billions of gallons of toxic waste into the Amazon rainforest.     Read more...

Ecuadorans Take Fight Against Chevron to Canada

1 June 2012 | San Francisco Chronicle

For the past year, Chevron has refused to pay an $18 billion pollution lawsuit judgment from a court in Ecuador. So on Wednesday, the company's Ecuadoran opponents moved the case to Canada.     Read more...

Giant Suit Hits Chevron Canada

31 May 2012 | Financial Post

In a staggering twist of the legal system, a massive $18-billion suit over decades old environment accidents in Ecuador has landed on the doorstep of Chevron Corp.'s Canadian operations.     Read more...

Chevron Sued in Canada over Ecuador Case

31 May 2012 | Financial Times

Plaintiffs who won an $18.2bn environmental damages case against oil majorChevron in Ecuador after 19 years of litigation have turned to Canada to enforce the ruling.     Read more...

Chevron-Ecuador Fight Comes to Canada

31 May 2012 | Bloomberg Businessweek

A peripatetic, two-decade-old pollution lawsuit against Chevron has bounced from New York to Ecuador, back to New York, and now on to the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto, Canada.     Read more...

Ecuadorians Hit Chevron With $18 Billion Enforcement Action In Canada

30 May 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Toronto, Ontario – Villagers from Ecuador's rainforest today filed a lawsuit in Canada as the first step in forcing the company to comply with an $18 billion court judgment rendered in Ecuador and imposed to permit the clean-up of what experts believe is the largest oil disaster on the planet.     Read more...

Shareholders Reprimand Chevron CEO Watson at Annual Meeting Over $18 Billion Ecuador Liability

28 May 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

San Ramon, CA – Chevron CEO John Watson today suffered a stunning reprimand during a tense annual meeting when shareholders voted in massive numbers to support resolutions citing his failure to properly manage the company's $18 billion adverse judgment in Ecuador.     Read more...

Chevron Sued in Canada by Amazon Residents

30 May 2012 | Wall Street Journal

Lawyers representing residents of an Amazon rain forest filed a lawsuit in Canada to seize assets there belonging to Chevron as part of their effort to collect an $18.2 billion judgment they won in Ecuador in a pollution case.     Read more...

Activists Gather for Chevron Shareholders Meeting

29 May 2012 | San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco, CA – For many Chevron investors, today's annual shareholders meeting represents a chance to hear top management extol their company's profits and plans for the future. For activists drawn to the meeting from around the world, it's a chance to confront a company they say has poisoned their land, water and air.     Read more...

40 Institutional Investors Demand Chevron Settle Ecuador Environmental Case

28 May 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – Only days before its annual shareholder meeting, forty Chevron investors with $580 billion in assets under management have demanded the oil giant settle the $18 billion environmental lawsuit brought by impoverished indigenous groups in the Ecuadorian rainforest almost two decades ago.     Read more...

Shareholders Urge Chevron To Stop Fighting Ecuador Judgement

25 May 2012 | Dow Jones

A shareholder group led by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli is urging Chevron Corp. to settle a nearly 20-year legal battle pitting the multinational corporation against indigenous people in the Ecuadorian rainforest.     Read more...

New York State Pension Fund Renews Call for Chevron to Resolve Ecuador Lawsuit

25 May 2012 | New York State Comptroller

New York, NY – New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli joined with 39 other investors from the United States, Canada and Europe, with a combined total of $580 billion in assets under management, to call on Chevron to settle its two-decade-long legal battle with indigenous populations in the Amazon rainforest.     Read more...

Chevron CEO Faces Growing Anger From Shareholders Over $18 Billion Ecuador Liability

23 May 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – An epic showdown between angry Chevron shareholders and notoriously short-tempered CEO John Watson over the company's $18 billion Ecuador liability is brewing just days before the company's annual meeting next week.     Read more...

Chevron Loses Some RICO Claims Against Ecuadoreans

21 May 2012 | Courthouse News Service

New York, NY – Chevron met with unusual resistance as a federal judge narrowed its lawsuit against a group of Ecuadoreans fighting to collect $18 billion for an oil contamination.     Read more...

Is Chevron in Violation of Securities Law?

New reports on Chevron's liabilities relating to environmental damages in Ecuador assert that while the company's legal options have narrowed significantly, its public filings repeat the same arguments made in 2008. First of a two-part series.
18 May 2012 | SocialFunds.com

The legal decisions continue to fall against Chevron, as the $18 billion judgment against it for environmental degradation in Ecuador has been upheld in appeals courts.     Read more...

Chevron Faces "Irreparable Damage" Because of $18 Billion Ecuador Judgment, Says New Financial Analysis

14 May 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – A new financial analysis has found that Chevron's $18 billion Ecuador environmental liability poses a threat of "irreparable damage" to the oil major's global operations if the plaintiffs make good on their promise to launch legal actions to enforce the judgment in countries where Chevron has billions of dollars in assets.     Read more...

Shareholders Slam Chevron With Request for SEC Investigation Over Ecuador Judgment

14 May 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – Chevron now faces another headache over its $18 billion Ecuador judgments – this time from some of its own investors.     Read more...

Chevron Suffers Major Legal Setback as U.S. Court Throws Out Fraud Claims, Rejects Motion to Attach Assets

14 May 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – Chevron suffered two new legal setbacks today when a U.S. federal judge who usually favors the company rejected its attempt to attach the assets of the Ecuadorians and separately tossed out two fraud-related claims against an American lawyer.     Read more...

Chevron Ecuador Risk Analysis Report

An Analysis of the Financial and Operational Risks to Chevron Corporation from Aguinda v. ChevronTexaco
May 2012 | An independent report commissioned by Oil Change International

This report asserts that Chevron's $18 billion Ecuador environmental liability poses a threat of "irreparable damage" to the oil major's global operations if the plaintiffs make good on their promise to launch legal actions to enforce the judgment in countries where Chevron has billions of dollars in assets.     Read more...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Confirmed Chevron's Ecuador Pollution in Powerful Essay

Saw Scenes That Looked Like "War" During Trip to Remote Region of Amazon in Early 1990s
7 May 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – In 1990, noted environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was one of the first outsiders to travel to a remote area of Ecuador's Amazon to assess what at the time was considered one of the worst oil disasters on the planet.     Read more...

Chevron en la Amazonía

Chevron en la Amazonía

El Chernobyl de Sudamérica
3 May 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Ya es hora de que Chevron limpie su contaminación masiva que ha devastado al medio ambiente de la Amazonía Ecuadoriana y sigue provocando casos de cancer, defectos de nacimiento, y otras enfermedades.     Read more...

Only In America: Chevron Lawyer Receives $7.8 Million For Losing $18 Billion Ecuador Lawsuit

24 April 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – Chevron's Board of Directors recently awarded its General Counsel R. Hewitt Pate a 75% raise – bringing his 2011 salary to a whopping $7.8 million – for losing the landmark $18 billion environmental lawsuit in Ecuador.     Read more...

Court Considers Chevron's Request for Documents in Ecuador Litigation

17 April 2012 | Greenwire

A federal appeals court today seemed inclined to rule that a lower court judge acted too hastily in allowing Chevron Corp. access to documents prepared by a consulting firm working for Ecuadorean plaintiffs in a high-profile case that has dragged on for almost 20 years.     Read more...

Chevron's Misrepresentations in Public Filings Regarding its $18.1 Billion Environmental Liability in Ecuador

April 2012

This memo presents evidence and analysis that Chevron's management is publishing false or materially misleading information regarding its $18.1 billion adverse judgment in Ecuador for causing environmental damage.     Read more...

Report: Chevron Misleading Investors Over Ecuador Environmental Judgment

17 April 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – Chevron's 2011 annual report misleads shareholders and the financial markets with information that is either demonstrably false or materially misleading regarding the $18 billion judgment against the company in Ecuador for causing environmental damage.     Read more...

Chevron Lawyer Claims Victims of Rainforest Contamination Are "Irrelevant"

16 April 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Washington, DC – A lead Chevron lawyer has made the preposterous claim that the 30,000 Ecuadorian victims of the oil giant's contamination are "irrelevant" to the court case that led to an $18 billion judgment against the company.     Read more...

Clean Up Ecuador Campaign Briefing Paper

Understanding Recent Developments in the Landmark Chevron-Ecuador Case
Spring 2012 | Amazon Watch

After 19 years of litigation, the monumental class action lawsuit against oil giant Chevron for environmental devastation in the Ecuadorian Amazon is nearing an end. In January, an Ecuadorian appeals court confirmed an $18 billion judgment against Chevron, exceeded in size only by BP's expected outlay for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.     Read more...

For Fourth Time, Ecuador Appellate Court Denies Chevron Attempt to Block Enforcement of $18 Billion Judgment

30 March 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Lago Agrio, Ecuador – A three-judge appellate panel in Ecuador has denied for the fourth time a Chevron attempt to block enforcement of the $18 billion environmental judgment against the oil giant, according to a decision released this week.     Read more...

No April Fool's Joke: Monsanto Voted Biggest "Corporate Fool" with the Worst Business Practices for 2012

U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Chevron Are Runners-Up in Facebook Balloting
29 March 2012 | Green America

Just in time for April Fool's Day, Green America announced the winners of its online contest to determine the biggest "Corporate Fool": Agricultural and chemical giant Monsanto came in first, followed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Chevron.     Read more...

Chevron Using Espionage Against Lawyers Who Won $18 Billion Verdict In Ecuador

Urgent Measures Sought to Protect Physical Security In Light of Threats, Surveillance
15 March 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – Facing increased financial risk in Latin America, Chevron has launched a corporate espionage campaign designed to intimidate and track the whereabouts of the lead lawyers who recently won an $18 billion judgment for environmental damage against the oil giant in Ecuador's courts.     Read more...

Undisputed Facts Show Chevron Guilty of Environmental Crimes in Ecuador Rainforest

8 March 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Quito, Ecuador – The Ecuadorians, who recently won an $18 billion judgment against Chevron for massive oil contamination in the Ecuador rainforest, said today undisputed facts clearly show the company guilty of environmental crimes that resulted in the destruction of once pristine land and water and direct harm to the health of the area's 30,000 residents.     Read more...

For Second Time, Ecuador Appellate Panel Rejects Chevron Attempt to Block $18 Billion Judgment For Dumping Toxic Waste

2 March 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Quito, Ecuador – A three-judge appellate panel Thursday denied for the second time a Chevron motion to block Amazon communities from enforcing their $18 billion judgment in countries around the world, moving the long-warring parties one step closer to a global judicial showdown that pits some of the most impoverished indigenous groups against one of the world's biggest oil giants.     Read more...

International Human Rights Commission to Review Chevron's Abuses In Ecuador

Rainforest Communities to Provide More Information About Health Impacts of Chevron Contamination
1 March 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Washington, D.C. – An international human rights court has agreed to hear the claims of the Ecuadorian indigenous rainforest communities who recently won an $18 billion judgment against the American oil company Chevron for its poisoning of their ancestral lands.     Read more...

BP Talks Settlement In Gulf, While Chevron Pouts Over Larger $18 Billion Ecuador Disaster

1 March 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – While BP is in settlement talks over the Gulf oil spill disaster, Chevron continues to pout over its $18 billion Ecuador judgment after being found guilty of waging a deliberate multi-decade contamination of the Amazon rainforest.     Read more...

Chevron's Arbitrator Suffers from Acute Ethical Problems, Ecuadorians Assert

Grigera Noan's "Business Relationship" With Chevron Lawyer Raises Questions
23 February 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – Horacio Grigera Noan, Chevron's arbitrator in a secret investor proceeding related to an $18 billion environmental judgment in Ecuador, has what amounts to a "business relationship" with the oil giant's lead American lawyer and therefore should be disqualified and sanctioned under the ethical rules governing international arbitrators.     Read more...

Shareholders Challenge Chevron Management Over $18 Billion Ecuador Liability

Financial Times Newsletter Describes Chevron Board As "Nearly Invisible"
22 February 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – A highly-respected newsletter distributed to corporate directors has described Chevron's Board as "nearly invisible" when dealing with the risks stemming from company's $18 billion environmental judgment in Ecuador.     Read more...

Ecuador Court Rejects Latest Chevron Attempt to Block Enforcement of $18 Billion Judgment

20 February 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Quito, Ecuador – With its options dwindling and the mistakes of its legal team mounting, Chevron has suffered another courtroom setback in its eleventh-hour attempt to block indigenous rainforest communities from enforcing their $18 billion judgment against the oil giant's assets around the world.     Read more...

Will Chevron Case Take Down Trade Pact "Investor-State" Enforcement System?

Unprecedented Ruling Today by International Investor Tribunal Orders Ecuadorian Government to Violate Its Constitution, Interfere in Its Independent Court System to Help Chevron Evade Liability for Amazonian Contamination
17 February 2012 | Public Citizen

Washington, DC – An unprecedented ruling today, in which an investor-state international arbitral tribunal initiated by Chevron ordered the Ecuadorian government to interfere in the operations of Ecuador's independent court system on behalf of the oil giant, provides a chilling glimpse of how corporations are trying to use international investor tribunals to evade justice, said Public Citizen.     Read more...

Chevron Secret Arbitration "Order" Will Have No Impact On $18 Billion Judgment, Ecuadorians Assert

Will Backfire Against Oil Giant In Courts Around World
17 February 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Washington, DC – A secret "order" issued Thursday from a private investor arbitration panel purporting to freeze a nine-year environmental litigation against Chevron in Ecuador violates international law and will have little or no impact on any potential enforcement action against the oil giant in countries around the world, said representatives of the plaintiffs.     Read more...

Video Exposes Chevron's Decimation of Indigenous Groups In Ecuador's Amazon

A Sordid Tale of Crime and Cover-up By Major U.S. Oil Company
16 February 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – In the Ecuadorian rainforest, far from the eyes of the U.S. news media, sits one of the world's most devastating environmental disasters – one that has killed numerous people and likely will kill thousands more in the coming years from cancer and other oil-related diseases if not properly remediated.     Read more...

Criticism of Chevron Grows Over Use of "Secret" Panel to Evade $18 Billion Ecuador Judgment

International Jurists Protest Oil Giant's Latest Maneuver
13 February 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – The Andean Commission of Jurists and five prestigious international law experts from around the world have joined a growing chorus of criticism targeting Chevron’s attempt to use a secret investor arbitration as part of its campaign to evade an $18 billion environmental judgment in Ecuador.     Read more...

Ecuadoreans Blast "Secret" Hague Tribunal Convened for Chevron

10 February 2012 | Courthouse News Service

New York, NY – A group of Ecuadoreans have taken the offensive against a Hague arbitration panel that they claim will meet in secret, without transparency or accountability, this weekend to determine the fate of an $18.2 billion environmental judgment they won against Chevron.     Read more...

Ecuador Communities Target Chevron's Secret Investor Arbitration In New Court Filing

Petition Accuses Oil Giant of Trying to Deny Human Rights to Thousands of Rainforest Inhabitants
10 February 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Washington, DC – Indigenous rainforest communities from Ecuador who recently won an $18 billion judgment against Chevron for environmental damage have filed suit before a renowned international human rights court seeking an order that would prevent the oil giant from using a secret arbitration to violate their legal rights.     Read more...

The True Story of Chevron's Ecuador Disaster

The True Story of Chevron's Ecuador Disaster

8 February 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Over almost three decades of oil drilling in Ecuador's Amazon, Chevron dumped billions of gallons of toxic waste into waterways relied on by local inhabitants for their drinking water.     Read more...

New Evidence That Chevron Used U.S. Professors to Defraud Ecuador Court In $18 Billion Environmental Lawsuit

Alvarez and Mackay Under Spotlight For Defending Efforts to Hide Contamination From Ecuador Judge
7 February 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – Chevron is refusing to deny that it defrauded Ecuador's courts by altering a key document to induce U.S. academic "experts" to endorse fake testing methods to hide the presence of massive quantities of cancer-causing toxins at the company's former well sites in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest.     Read more...

Chevron Blasted In U.N. Letter for Violating International Law In Ecuador Case

"Egregious Misuse" of U.S.-Ecuador Investment Treaty As Oil Giant Tries Yet Again to Evade $18 Billion Liability
6 February 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – A distinguished international law jurist from Latin America has issued a letter to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asking for a review of Chevron's "egregious misuse" of an investor treaty to evade its $18 billion liability in Ecuador for creating one of the world's worst oil-related disasters in the Amazon rainforest.     Read more...

Facing Devastating Setbacks, Chevron Now Seeks Taxpayer Bailout from $18 Billion Ecuador Judgment

Oil Giant's Legal Options Continue to Narrow
1 February 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Quito, Ecuador – Facing devastating setbacks in the courts of two countries over its $18 billion Ecuador liability, Chevron is now seeking a taxpayer-funded bailout for the clean-up costs of its environmental catastrophe in the Amazon rainforest.     Read more...

Ecuadoreans Call for U.S. Help in Chevron Arbitration

30 January 2012 | Reuters

In last week's rejection of Chevron's attempt to use U.S. courts to block enforcement of the Lago Agrio plaintiffs' $18 billion Ecuadorean judgment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit was clearly uneasy at the idea of American judges interfering with foreign jurisprudence. So far, the arbitration panel overseeing Chevron's case against the Republic of Ecuador has had no such qualms. But with Chevron now relying heavily on the arbitration process to protect it from plaintiffs' attempts to claim oil company assets, the panel's power over foreign courts is going to become a key issue – and the Ecuadorean plaintiffs are now calling for the U.S. government to support Ecuador's sovereignty. Chevron, meanwhile, argues that if anyone has caused harm to Ecuador's constitution, it's the Republic and the Lago Agrio plaintiffs, not Chevron and the arbitration panel.     Read more...

Chevron CEO's Plan to Evade $18b Ecuador Liability Falters As Courts Slam Oil Giant

Analysis of Litigation Offered to Company Shareholders by Leaders of Indigenous Groups
30 January 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, ,NY – U.S. courts are showing increasing hostility toward Chevron and its CEO John Watson over the company's $18 billion Ecuador liability as the oil giant's plan to quash the landmark case continues to falter.     Read more...

Chevron, Ecuador and the $2.2 Million Man

27 January 2012 | San Francisco Chronicle

In the sprawling legal drama surrounding Chevron Corp. in Ecuador, Diego Borja has played one of the strangest roles.      Read more...

US Appeals Court: Judge Overstepped Authority in Banning Collection of $18B Ecuador Judgement

26 January 2012 | Associated Press

New York, NY – A judge overstepped his authority when he tried to ban enforcement around the world of an $18 billion judgment against Chevron Inc. for environmental damage in Ecuador, a federal appeals court said Thursday.     Read more...

Second Circuit Ruling Sets Right Grave Injustice Against Ecuadorians

Chevron's Abusive Legal Tactics Rebuked
26 January 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

A grave injustice against the Ecuadorians has been set right by today's 2nd Circuit ruling. It rebukes Chevron's abusive legal tactics of the past two years designed solely to malign the very people who suffer as a result of the company's deliberate poisoning of their homeland, the Ecuadorian rainforest.     Read more...

Chevron Paid $2.2 Million to Man Who Threatened to Expose Company's Corruption in Ecuador

23 January 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – Chevron has paid a whopping $2.2 million to a longtime company contractor who repeatedly threatened to expose the company's attempts to mislead the court and corrupt the landmark environmental trial in Ecuador, according to new court documents.     Read more...

Statement on Chevron's Appeal of the $18 Billion Judgment in Ecuador

20 January 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

For almost two decades, Chevron has stood in the way of a comprehensive cleanup of billions of gallons of crude oil and toxic waste water it deliberately dumped into the pristine rainforest. Thousands of people have died or have suffered from illnesses as the oil giant and its legions of lawyers fought to distract attention from the overwhelming evidence against the company. Chevron has always believed that Ecuador's many laws prohibiting environmental contamination should not apply to the company's misconduct.     Read more...

Will the Lawsuit Over Oil Contamination in Ecuador Ever End?

19 January 2012 | Mother Jones

In the past few weeks, there have been several developments in the ongoing lawsuit that Ecuadorian communities have filed against Chevron for polluting the Amazon.     Read more...

Chevron Loses Another Bid to Block $18 Billion Ecuador Award

19 January 2012 | Bloomberg

Chevron Corp. (CVX) lost another bid before a U.S appeals court for an order blocking enforcement of an Ecuadorean court's $18 billion environmental damages verdict.     Read more...

2nd Circuit Court of Appeals Denies Chevron's Motion to Lift the Stay on the Injunction to Block the $18 Billion Judgment Against Chevron in an Ecuador Court

19 January 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Chevron's legal options to evade the Ecuador judgment continue to narrow. Chevron's shareholders must now understand that the company's management team is putting their interests at great risk due to the company's bungling of the Ecuador litigation.     Read more...

Chevron Refusing to Contest Ecuador Appellate Court Decision Upholding $18 Billion In Damages

Court Confirms Oil Giant Must Post Bond to Suspend Enforcement Actions
18 January 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Quito, Ecuador – In a stark departure from its normal litigation practices, Chevron has refused to request that the Ecuador appellate court that recently affirmed the $18 billion judgment against the oil major reconsider or clarify its decision.     Read more...

Kerry Kennedy Blasts Chevron As "Unpatriotic" For Destruction of Ecuador's Amazon

Human Rights Advocate Says Oil Giant Could Lose Business Worldwide Unless It "Mends It Ways" in South America
17 January 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – Human rights lawyer Kerry Kennedy has blasted Chevron as "unpatriotic" and called on the company to "mend its ways" in Ecuador or risk losing business as governments in oil-producing nations begin to perceive it as a rogue operator out of step with the modern world.     Read more...

U.S. Law Firms Bill Chevron Exorbitant Fees To Prevent Clean-up of Ecuador Pollution Crisis

Oil Giant Concedes It Has Used Almost 500 Lawyers to Fight Rainforest Indigenous Groups
16 January 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – While indigenous groups in Ecuador's Amazon face possible death and grave illness from Chevron's "Rainforest Chernobyl" disaster, several prominent U.S. law firms and their well-known partners are billing the oil giant hundreds of millions of dollars to forestall a clean-up that could save thousands of lives, according to court documents.     Read more...

Ecuadoreans Are Two Steps Closer Toward $18.2B Chevron Judgment

9 January 2012 | Courthouse News Service

Chevron suffered two new setbacks in its bid to dodge liability for massive oil contamination in the Amazon, which an Ecuadoran appeals court has just affirmed will cost $18.2 billion to remediate.     Read more...

David v Goliath: Chevron Plots to Avoid Cleaning Up Oil Pollution in Amazon Rainforest

Ecuador government urged not to give in to pressure from the US oil giant Chevron to drop record $18 billion fine for its part in the "Chernobyl of the Amazon"
9 January 2012 | The Ecologist

Although celebrating the victory - the largest award for an environmental case in legal history - representatives of the communities affected say the battle for making Chevron pay has only just begun.     Read more...

An Oily Case: Chevron's Never-Ending, Record-Breaking Lawsuit in Ecuador

9 January 2012 | Time.com

How long has the legal battle between indigenous groups in the Ecuadorean Amazon and the oil giant Chevron been going on? So long that Texaco no longer exists; so long that six separate Ecuadorean judges have been involved in the case, and one federal judge in New York died before he could make a ruling; so long that former President Bill Clinton had just moved into the White House when the lawsuit was first filed in 1993.     Read more...

Chevron Reportedly Offered $1 Billion to Quash Huge Environmental Case In Ecuador

Rainforest Communities Slam Oil Giant for Engaging In "Corrupt" Attempt to Avoid Paying for Environmental Cleanup
9 January 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Quito, Ecuador – Reports have surfaced that Chevron is trying to float a $1 billion bribe offer to Ecuador's government to quash a historic $18 billion judgment against the company before international enforcement can begin.     Read more...

Chevron Suffers New Setback In $18 Billion Ecuador Legal Case

U.S. Federal Judge Denies Company's Motion to Attach Assets
6 January 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – Chevron has lost yet another legal round over its increasingly furious effort to evade paying an $18 billion judgment in Ecuador for causing environmental damage in the Amazon rainforest, according to a decision released by a U.S. federal judge today.     Read more...

Devastating Evidence of Chevron Destruction Undergirds $18 Billion Ecuador Appellate Decision

Communities Release Document Summarizing Wide Body of Scientific Evidence
5 January 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Quito, Ecuador – Ecuador's courts relied on a wide body of devastating scientific and documentary evidence.     Read more...

Chevron Loses Bid in Ecuador Appeals Court

5 January 2012 | San Francisco Chronicle

An Ecuadoran appeals court has upheld last year's landmark $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron Corp. over oil field contamination in the Amazon rain forest.     Read more...

Ecuador Court Upholds Historic Environmental Case Against Chevron

4 January 2012 | Miami Herald

Humberto Piaguaje, a school teacher in Ecuador's Amazon, says he has lost eight family members to cancer. He blames the rash of deaths in his village on river water contaminated by upstream oil operations.     Read more...

Ecuador Court Upholds $8.6 Billion Ruling Against Chevron

4 January 2012 | CNN

An Ecuadorian appeals court upheld an $8.6 billion ruling against oil giant Chevron stemming from claims that the company had a detrimental impact on Amazonian communities where it operated.     Read more...

Ecuador Appellate Judges Outraged by Chevron's Abuse of Judicial Process

In Meticulous Review, Panel Finds Ample Evidence to Support $18 Billion Judgment Against Oil Giant
4 January 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Lago Agrio, Ecuador – Members of the appellate panel in Ecuador that affirmed the $18 billion judgment against Chevron for contaminating the Amazon rainforest were clearly outraged at the oil giant's abuse of the judicial process.     Read more...

Chevron's Ecuador Case Takes New Twist

4 January 2012 | Financial Times

Fadel Gheit, an analyst at Oppenheimer in New York, says: "At the very beginning, it didn't look as though the case was going anywhere." Now he expects Chevron to agree to pay $2bn-$3bn to bring the dispute to an end.     Read more...

Chevron Guilty Verdict Upheld by Ecuador Appellate Court

$18 Billion Decision in Landmark Contamination Case Further Vindication for Thousands of Rainforest Residents
4 January 2012 | Amazon Watch, RAN

San Francisco, CA – Yesterday, an Ecuadorian appellate court upheld a historic $18 billion award against Chevron for the company's deliberate contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon.     Read more...

How Lawyer Arrogance Imperils Chevron Shareholders in Ecuador

3 January 2012 | The Huffington Post

One of the more interesting aspects of the $18 billion Chevron-Ecuador environmental case is how a series of monumental mistakes by the American law firm Gibson Dunn Crutcher have increasingly imperiled the interests of a major client like Chevron and its institutional shareholders.     Read more...

Ecuador Court Ratifies Multibillion Ruling Against Chevron

3 January 2012 | Dow Jones

Houston, TX – An Ecuadorian court on Tuesday ratified a multi-billion dollar ruling issued last year against Chevron, holding the company responsible for environmental and punitive damages stemming from oil operations in Ecuador's Amazon region.     Read more...

Ecuador Appellate Court Confirms $18 Billion Judgment Against Chevron In Ecuador

Rainforest Communities Issue Statement Condemning Chevron's Greed and Criminal Misconduct in South American Country
3 January 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

Quito, Ecuador – Lago Agrio plaintiffs: "The decision by an independent appellate court is yet further confirmation of Chevron's extraordinary greed and criminal misconduct in Ecuador."     Read more...

Chevron Fraud Scandal In Ecuador Implicates Rice University Professor

Dr. Pedro J. Alvarez Asked to Disavow Report Submitted In $18 Billion Environmental Case In Ecuador
3 January 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition

New York, NY – A prominent environmental engineering professor at Rice University has been implicated in a fraud scandal in Ecuador's courts after submitting a report defending Chevron that appears to be the product of fabricated evidence, say lawyers for the plaintiffs.     Read more...