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Chevron Texaco Benefitted from Dumping Oil in Ecuador Beyond Saving Money
A study of the Chevron Texaco oil dumping case in Ecuador reveals that oil companies have an incentive to pollute that goes beyond saving money from oil dumping, explains Lindsay Ofrias, the study's author
5 September 2017 | Real News Network
Oil companies and similar corporations save money by contaminating the environment. A recent study conducted in the context of the Chevron Texaco case argues that oil companies also have an incentive to contaminate the environment that goes beyond saving money. Read more...
Chevron vs. the Amazon: Inside the Kill Zone, Part Two
Abby Martin uncovers the oil giant's Amazon "kill zone" to check in on a cleanup that never happened
21 August 2016 | The Empire Files
In Part 2 of "Chevron vs. the Amazon," The Empire Files continues its investigation into the 22-year legal battle between Chevron Texaco and the state of Ecuador, where the oil company continues to damage the environment and the habitat of tens of thousands of Indigenous Amazonians. Read more...
Chevron vs. the Amazon: Inside the Kill Zone, Part One
The Empire Files goes inside the oil giant's Amazon "kill zone" to check in on a cleanup that never happened
15 August 2016 | The Empire Files
In Part 1 of "Chevron vs. the Amazon," teleSUR's Abby Martin takes The Empire Files inside the oil giant's Amazon kill zone to see the areas deemed "remediated" by Chevron—showing how the company never really cleaned the open pits it had agreed to with the Ecuadorean government. Read more...
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...
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...
The Amazon's Toxic Mess
Zoë Tryon highlights the plight of Ecuadorian natives after decades of oil drilling
9 October 2011 | Sunday Night Show
Zoë Tryon highlights the plight of Ecuadorian natives after decades of oil drilling in this powerful investigation by Mike Munro. Read more...
Court Ruling Backs Ecuadorian Effort to Hold Chevron Accountable For Amazon Pollution
20 September 2011 | Democracy Now!
A U.S. appeals court has ruled oil giant Chevron cannot escape an $18 billion fine for massive pollution of the Amazon rain forest. Read more...
Delegation from Ecuadorian Amazon Demands Justice from Chevron
14 June 2011
In 1993, Elias Piaguaje traveled to New York to file a landmark lawsuit against Chevron. Elias' nephew Humberto returned 18 years later, carrying with him a historic guilty verdict. Read more...
Carmen Zambrano: Mother & Community Leader vs. Chevron
19 May 2011
Carmen is visiting the US for the first time, bringing with her stories of a once-beautiful and fertile region, devastated by Chevron's operations, and confronting the oil giant directly at the company's shareholders meeting. Read more...
Servio Curipoma Arrives in New York to Tell His Story
18 May 2011
Servio lost both his parents and a sister to cancer that doctors have attributed to drinking water contaminated by toxic crude waste. Since that time, Curipoma has become an active voice for his community. Read more...
Chevron in Ecuador: A Defining Moment
12 May 2011
Chevron has been found guilty of massive contamination of the Amazon and fined $18 billion, but the company has vowed to fight the verdict "until Hell freezes over." Read more...
An Open Letter to the People of the United States from the Ecuadorian Plaintiffs
30 April 2011
To commemorate a delegation of Ecuadorians visiting the U.S. to demand justice from Chevron, the communities of the Ecuadorian Amazon issued an Open Letter to the People of the United States. Read more...
Former Chevron/Texaco Worker in Ecuador: We Dumped Pollution into the Rainforest
27 October 2010
A former oil operations assistant for Texaco (now Chevron) in Ecuador explains how oil workers were told to dump toxic waste directly into the rainforest environment. Read more...
Chevron Toxic Waste Pit in Ecuador: Designed to Pollute
14 October 2010
Amazon Watch's Mitch Anderson shows us how toxic waste pits built by Texaco (now Chevron) around the company's oil drilling sites in Ecuador are designed to pollute, and continue to spread oil contamination in the Amazon rainforest environment. Read more...
Gulf Coast Delegation, Day 3: Amazon to the Gulf
2 July 2010
Indigenous and community leaders from Ecuador's Amazon who have been devastated by Chevron oil contamination are making an historic journey to visit with the Gulf Coast communities hard hit by BP's oil disaster. Read more...
Gulf Coast Delegation, Day 2: Amazon to the Gulf
1 July 2010
Indigenous and community leaders from Ecuador's Amazon who have been devastated by Chevron oil contamination are making an historic journey to visit with the Gulf Coast communities hard hit by BP's oil disaster. Read more...
Gulf Coast Delegation, Day 1: Amazon to the Gulf
30 June 2010
Indigenous and community leaders from Ecuador's Amazon who have been devastated by Chevron oil contamination are making an historic journey to visit with the Gulf Coast communities hard hit by BP's oil disaster. Read more...
Ecuador Tribe in Rare Visit to Help Clean-Up Lousiana Oil Spill
30 June 2010 | Al Jazeera
There has been a rare offer of support from an indigenous community from Ecuador for another indigenous tribe in Louisiana that has been affected by the spill. Al Jazeera's Scott Heidler joined the Ecuadorians in Louisiana's Bay Baptiste. Read more...
Santiago Escobar Press Conference
06 April 2010
Press conference with Santiago Escobar, the childhood friend of Chevron operative Diego Borja. Borja admitted on tape that he had evidence of Chevron's misconduct during the trial, including tampering with evidence. Read more...
Ricardo Reis Veiga Explains the Eight Steps of "Remediation"
13 February 2010
Chevron attorney Ricardo Reis Veiga, one of the two company attorneys who negotiated the fraudulent remediation agreement, explains the eight steps of the so-called "remediation" but slips up and admits the oil sites were never cleaned. Read more...
Message from Ecuador to Chevron CEO John Watson
12 January 2010
A heartfelt message from the Amazon rainforest communities in Ecuador to new Chevron CEO John Watson: "We don't want to continue dying of cancer." This video message appeals for Chevron to clean up its massive contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon that has devastated the environment and continues to cause widespread cancer, birth defects, and other ailments. Read more...
Ecuador Oil Pollution Case Takes New Turn
29 October 2009 | Al Jazeera
Lucia Newman, Al Jazeera's Latin America editor, reports from Ecuador on the case, and Karen Hinton, a spokesperson for the plaintiffs, talks about the recent developments in the lawsuit, including the revelation that Chevron's key witness in the alleged bribery scandal is a convicted felon with a checkered past. Read more...
Ecuador: The Tribes vs. Chevron-Texaco
27 October 2009 | Latin Pulse
Latin Pulse talks with Joe Berlinger about his new film on the case, Crude, and with Amazon Watch about the worst environmental disaster since Chernobyl. Read more...
Kerry Kennedy Interviewed by Rick Sanchez on CNN
22 October 2009 | CNN
CNN's Rick Sanchez interviews Kerry Kennedy, President of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights (and RFK's daughter). Kennedy, who visited parts of the Amazon province of Sucumbios by invitation of the plaintiffs to witness ecological damage, said that Chevron must be held responsible and compensate the local populations. Read more...
Highlights from the LA Premiere of CRUDE
25 September 2009
Sean Penn, Isla Fisher, Stuart Townsend, Q'orianka Kilcher, Armand Assante, Billy Wirth, Rosanna Arquette Among Dozens of Celebrities Who Turn Up to Support Amazon Watch's Screening of CRUDE. Read more...
Activist 911: CRUDE The Real Price of Oil
23 September 2009 | Current Green
Current Green interviews Han Shan, activist with Amazon Watch about the new film, CRUDE. Three years in the making, this cinéma-vérité feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial environmental lawsuits on the planet. Read more...
60 Seconds
18 August 2009
Amazon Watch has a new animation from Mark Fiore that sends Chevron a stern warning to clean up their mess in Ecuador! Read more...
Trailer for Crude: The Real Price of Oil
28 July 2009
With the release of the documentary film CRUDE, we have an unprecedented opportunity to massively increase public demand that Chevron/Texaco be held accountable for its devastation of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Read more...
Chevron Fights Massive Lawsuit in Ecuador
A case about responsibility for cleaning up a toxic drilling site could cost the company billions and send a chill through the industry.
29 May 2009 | Christian Science Monitor
An article and video photo essay exploring Chevron, who knowingly unleashed toxins across an estimated 1,700 square miles in the Ecuador Rainforest – roughly the size of Rhode Island. Read more...
Interview on "The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report"
26 May 2009 | Democracy Now
Just ahead of Chevron's shareholder meeting, a new report tells shareholders more about the hidden and underreported costs of these profits. The alternative annual report brings together stories from communities across the world directly affected by and in struggle against Chevron's operations Read more...
Amazon Crude on 60 Minutes
3 May 2009 | CBS
New York (May 3, 2009) -- This important documentary is entitled Amazon Crude and focuses on on the class action lawsuit against Chevron for deliberately contaminating the Ecuadorian Amazon and causing a wave of cancer and miscarriages in the region. Read more...
Chevron: The Real Human Story in Ecuador
8 September 2008
Humberto, an Indigenous leader from Ecuador, describes the impacts of Chevron's oil exploration in the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest. Read more...
Chevron vs. The Goldman Environmental Prize
30 April 2008
Video from the Weiser Group about the Goldman Award Ceremony and press conference at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Read more...
Chevron's Inhumane Energy
14 April 2008
Chevron dumped over 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Now it is trying to hide the disaster launching public relations campaigns about "human energy" and social responsibility. Read more...
La Energía Inhumana de Chevron
14 April 2008
Entre 1972 y 1992, los derrames de petróleo y las emisiones de desechos tóxicos, equivalentes a treinta veces el tamaño del desastre del derrame del Exxon Valdez contaminaron el suelo y las fuentes de agua de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana, uno de los lugares más frágiles en la tierra. Read more...
Justica Now - One Peoples Fight Against Big Oil
10 November 2007
Justicia Now! is a documentary about Chevron Texaco's toxic legacy in the Northern Ecuadorian region of the Amazon rainforest - and a courageous group of people called Los Afectados (The Affected Ones) who are seeking justice for the ensuing cancer, sickness and death in the largest environmental class action lawsuit in history. Read more...
Crude Reflections Photo Exhibit Opening Night
June 2005
The photo exhibit Crude Reflections: ChevronTexaco's Rainforest Legacy, documenting the human and environmental impact of what experts believe is the worst oil-related environmental disaster on the planet, offers the public its first up close look at the human impact of ChevronTexaco's oil pollution in Ecuador's rainforest region, and the Amazonian communities' efforts to restore the health of their families and land. Read more...
ChevronTexaco on Trial in Ecuador
December 2003
This film presents an overview of the campaign to hold Chevron responsable for its activities. While drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon from 1964 to 1990, Texaco – which merged with Chevron in 2001 – deliberately dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater, spilled roughly 17 million gallons of crude oil, and left hazardous waste in hundreds of open pits dug out of the forest floor. Read more...
ChevronTexaco: Clean Up Ecuador TV Ad
December 2002
30 second PSA narrated by Cary Elwes Read more...
ChevronTexaco: Ecuador's Black Plague
December 2002
Exposing toxic pollution in the Amazon Read more...