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Shareholders, Wall Street Concerned Over Chevron’s $27 Billion Environmental Liability in Ecuador

Latest In Long Series of Setbacks for Oil Giant

San Francisco (December 8, 2008) – An increase in Chevron’s potential environmental liability in Ecuador to $27 billion is causing concern among Wall Street analysts and shareholders that the oil giant has failed to set aside sufficient reserves and has not fully disclosed its risk for what could be one of the largest civ

Indígenas representantes de comunidad U'wa pidieron en Nueva York veto a Ecopetrol

Portafolio | Con apoyo de ONG norteamericana Amazon Watch, dos líderes se reunieron con representantes del JP Morgan y con una docena de entidades financieras para solicitarles que no compren acciones."La empresa está violando los derechos indígenas con su explotación petrolera en el territorio ancestral U'wa", según Andrew Mi

Chevron's $27 Billion Liability in Ecuador's Amazon Confirmed by Team of Independent Scientists

Hundreds of Cancer Deaths Due to Ecological Devastation

Quito, Ecuador (December 1, 2008) – An increase in Chevron's potential environmental liability in Ecuador's Amazon to $27 billion is “reasonable” given new scientific data about groundwater contamination and hundreds of additional cancer deaths due to oil contamination, according to a team of scientists who have reviewe

Amazon in Focus 2008

In celebration of our 12th year protecting the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous peoples, Amazon Watch released

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Chevron Hires Global Warming Denier as Consultant

Oil Giant Charged With Hypocrisy for Ad Campaign Touting “Green” Image While Humanitarian Crisis Festers In Amazon

Washington, D.C – Chevron has hired a “scientist” affiliated with a think tank dedicated to denying the threat of global warming while it spends tens of millions of dollars on a national advertising campaign to promote a "green" image.The Chevron consultant, Douglas Southgate, is actually an “environmental econ

Chevron Estimate for Amazon Damages Rises by $11 Billion

Bloomberg | Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) – Chevron Corp., which acquired Texaco Inc. in 2001, said a consultant in Ecuador raised by $11 billion his estimate of damages the company may have to pay for pollution in the Amazon allegedly caused by Texaco.

IN ECUADOR, MASS MOBILIZATIONS AGAINST MINING CONFRONT PRESIDENT CORREA

Upside Down World | In Ecuador, thousands of indigenous, campesinos, Afro-descendants and environmentalists took to the streets on Monday, protesting the pending mining law and government failure to fully apply a mining mandate passed by the National Constituent Assembly in April.With strong turnout in five different parts of the country,

Colombian Indigenous Travel to New York to Urge Investors Not to Buy Shares of Colombian State Oil Company Ecopetrol

U’wa leaders spoke with representatives of JP Morgan Chase and potential investors to voice concerns over Ecopetrol’s activity on their ancestral lands

Washington D.C. — Two leaders of Colombia’s U’wa community traveled to New York City last week to meet with investment firms, urging them not to buy shares of the Colombian state oil company Ecopetrol.

Talisman says it will stay in Peru

Calgary Herald | Talisman Energy will continue to work in Peru's Amazon jungle, in spite of requests from an environmental group to cease drilling in the area.Talisman spokesman Barry Nelson said Thursday the company has been in close contact with communities in the area where Talisman is working, a 75,000 square-kilometre area called

Amazon Watch's Statement on Talisman's Oil Project in the Peruvian Amazon

Talisman Urged to Suspend Operations in Block 64 Pending Resolution of Conflict with Indigenous Communities

(San Francisco, CA)-Amazon Watch issues this statement following a telephone meeting yesterday with officials from the Calgary-based Talisman Energy.

Peruvian tribesmen target Alberta oil firm

Edmonton Sun | CALGARY – Peruvian tribesmen are threatening to physically halt the operations of Calgary-based petroleum producer Talisman Energy in their region over fears of environmental devastation.Members of the Achuar community in northern Peru have given a Nov.

Perú: Histórica decisión municipal reconoce propiedad de territorio indígena

La Voz de la Selva | Con ocho votos a favor y una abstención el Concejo Municipal provincial de Datém del Marañon aprobó la ordenanza municipal 0012-2008-CM-MPDM, que establece el procedimiento autónomo de ordenamiento y zonificación territorial para los pueblos indígenas de esta provincia.La decisión municipal ha sido calificada c

Colombia: Indígenas mantienen movilización

Prensa Latina | Las comunidades indígenas colombianas se mantienen movilizadas y anunciaron que el 10 de noviembre marcharán hacia Bogotá para continuar reclamando sus derechos.Ese día unos 10 mil indígenas del departamento del Cauca emprenderán desde la ciudad de Cali una caminata hacia Bogotá, como parte de la movilización d

Escuela Senen Soi

As a response to increasing threats from logging, oil and gas drilling, industrial agriculture, and mining, the Escuela Senen Soi was launched in 2007 as a training program by and for indigenous leaders of the Peruvian Amazon.

COLOMBIA: Where Dialogue Seems Impossible

IPS | BOGOTA, Oct 28 (IPS) - Dialogue – or, more accurately, the lack thereof – was the common denominator in two high-profile events Sunday in the western Colombian city of Cali, demonstrating to what extent this vehicle of mutual understanding is missing in this civil war-torn South American country.Former

Chevron Asked To Disclose Relationship to Pat Murphy

Environmental Group Asserts Oil Giant Paying Writers to Pose As Journalists as Part of Public Relations Campaign

San Francisco (October 24) – The environmental group Amazon Watch today called on Chevron and the San Francisco-based writer Pat Murphy to divulge their financial relationship in light of disclosures that Murphy’s website accepts fees for editorial control of news articles written under Murphy’s byline.“Chevro

Texaco Ordered Destruction of Oil Spill Documents

Internal Company Memo Raises More Questions about Texaco's Operations in Amazon Rainforest Chevron Now Faces $16 Billion Liability and Indictments

Quito, Ecuador – Texaco, now owned by Chevron, ordered its employees to destroy reports documenting oil spills in the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador where the company is now the subject of a $16.3 billion potential liability in a civil lawsuit, according to an internal company memo released today by the group representing pla

U'wa Indigenous Community Peacefully Occupies Ecopetrol's Gibraltar Platform to Demand Cancellation of Oil Project

1,000 U'wa Participate in 3-Day Action Despite Warnings and Intimidation Attempts by Military

Bogotá, Colombia — Nearly one thousand members of the U’wa indigenous people from the cloud forests of northeastern Colombia participated in a historic march and peaceful occupation of Ecopetrol’s oil platform in protest of oil project on their sacred ancestral lands.