Chevron's Chernobyl in the Amazon

For over three decades, Chevron chose profit over people. While drilling for oil in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest region, the company deliberately dumped billions of gallons of toxic wastewater into rivers and streams, spilled millions of gallons of crude oil, and abandoned hazardous waste in hundreds of unlined open-air pits littered throughout the region. The result was widespread devastation of the rainforest ecosystem and local indigenous communities, and one of the worst environmental disasters in history.More »

Servio Returns to Hand Watson a Pink Slip

May 20, 2013 | Blog Post

Two years ago Ecuadorian farmer Servio Curipoma left his rainforest home and traveled thousands of miles to bring his story to the US. This month he returns to demand that Chevron's CEO resign.More »

$19B Ecuador Liability Puts Chevron CEO Watson on Hot Seat Before Annual Meeting

May 14, 2013 | Press Release

Oakland, CA – Facing growing shareholder unrest over asset seizure actions and forced to testify about his alleged misconduct in the $19 billon Ecuador case, Chevron CEO John Watson again will be on the hot seat at the company's annual meeting in late May where rainforest indigenous villagers and investors plan to confront him over his company's toxic dumping in the Amazon.More »

Oil Demand Threatens Ecuador's Rainforest

Up to 8 million acres of pristine Ecuadorian rainforest is under threat by a new plan to drill for oil. A local tribe vows to fight to protect their land.

May 3, 2013 | NBC Nightly News

The Wauroni tribes, who live in the forests of Ecuador, are getting ready to challenge the Ecuadorian government’s plan to sell as much as 8 million acres of rainforest for oil drilling, saying they are prepared to fight to the death to protect the land. More »

Visiting Yawepare and Clean Water for the Amazon

April 25, 2013 | Blog Post

ClearWater is a community-based project that is providing clean water drinking systems to hundreds of affected families among the indigenous nationalities in this oil-affected region.More »

We Beat Chevron, but the Fight for Real Justice Continues

April 5, 2013 | Blog Post

At one point or another every social justice activist wakes up wondering if we stand a chance against the massive forces acting against us. This week, my faith in justice was given a boost when we won a major victory against Chevron.More »

Chevron Battles Activist Shareholders

March 12, 2013 | San Francisco Chronicle

"I've never had a case of a company playing such hardball tactics against its own shareholders this way," said Simon Billenness. "The feeling among institutional shareholders is we really have to draw a line in the sand here, because we can't have companies using these tactics against shareholders in the future."More »

Chevron's Kangaroo Court: Citizens United on Steroids

March 4, 2013 | Blog Post

President Correa is no stranger to hyperbole, but in this he is right on the mark: "It's the end of sovereignty, the end of our independence; we have become colonies with these rulings from international courts."More »

Chevron Using 60 Law Firms and 2,000 Legal Personnel To Evade Ecuador Environmental Liability, Company Reports

March 4, 2013 | Press Release

New York, NY – Chevron is deploying at least 2,000 lawyers and legal professionals from more than 60 law firms in an attempt to deny a fair trial to Ecuadorian villagers as the oil giant furiously tries to contain the growing international fallout from its $19 billion Ecuador environmental liability.More »

Ecuador/Chevron Dispute Enters a New Chapter: Correa Calls for Latam Support

February 26, 2013 | MercoPress

President Rafael Correa said he expects the regional groupings Alba and Unasur to meet urgently and address the "legal aberration" committed by a UN trade law arbitrage tribunal against Ecuador in a case involving US multinational Chevron and decades of environmental damages.More »

Chevron Hit by Argentine Legal Quagmire

February 13, 2013 | The Financial Times

Buenos Aires, Argentina – Chevron's investment in Argentina has become bogged down in a morass of legal challenges. Many of its assets in Argentina have been frozen as a result of an action by Amazonian villagers pursuing $19bn in damages for pollution in Ecuador more than two decades ago.More »