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Oct 03, 2008 -- Chevron Loses Major Lobbying Battle In Congress Over Ecuador Trade Benefits
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McCain Finance Chair Had Led Campaign -- Effort to Quash Claims of Indigenous Tribes Fails
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| Washington -- Chevron has lost a critical lobbying battle in Congress in its effort to escape a $16.3 billion liability in Ecuador stemming from a landmark environmental case, said Amazonian residents and their lawyers engaged in a court battle with the company.
Despite hiring a team of A-list Washington insiders – including Wayne Berman, John McCain's national finance chairman and former Senat...
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Sep 18, 2008 -- Investors Urged not to Buy Ecopetrol Shares on NYSE over Human Rights Concerns...
Colombian Oil Company Violates Indigenous Rights, Industry Human Rights Benchmarks
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| See Letter to JP Morgan and Industry Analysts regarding Ecopetrol IPO: http://www.amazonwatch.org/newsroom/view_news.php?id=1647
New York, N.Y. — Investors were urged today not to buy Ecopetrol shares, expected to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, over concerns about the Colombian state-oil company's inadequate commitment to corporate social responsibility and mishandling of...
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Sep 16, 2008 -- Amazon Defense Coalition: Ecuador Court Report Underestimates Damages for Chevron's "Amazon Chernobyl" in Ecuador
$16 Billion Chevron Liability Cou...
New Criminal Indictment of Chevron Lawyers
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| QUITO, Ecuador (BUSINESS WIRE) -- An independent court-appointed expert in the environmental trial against Chevron in Ecuador should impose additional damages on the oil giant for groundwater and surface water contamination that could significantly increase the current $16.3 billion liability estimate, lawyers for the plaintiffs say.
In a response to the expert's 4,000-page report, the plaintif...
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Sep 15, 2008 -- Criminal Indictment of Chevron Lawyers Based on Wide Body of Scientific Evidence...
Seven Ecuadorian Government Officials Also Charged with Conspiring with Chevron to Falsify Remediation Results
Company Hit with Multiple Scandals i
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| Quito, Ecuador – A criminal indictment in Ecuador against two Chevron lawyers, one an executive vice-president, is based on scientific evidence that the oil giant conspired with Ecuadorian government officials to falsify the results of an environmental clean-up to escape a potential multi-billion dollar civil liability pending in U.S. federal court.
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Sep 10, 2008 -- Chevron's Environmental Clean-Up in Ecuador Falls Far Short of Company Claims, Report Says...
Court Expert Finds More than 80% of Chevron Waste Pits in Amazon Rainforest Were Never Cleaned . . . . .
"Devastating Blow" to Chevron, Assert Plai
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| QUITO, Ecuador--(BUSINESS WIRE)--An independent court-appointed expert in Ecuador has found that 42 out of 46 toxic waste pits inspected in the Amazon rainforest operated exclusively by Chevron contain high levels of toxins in violation of environmental norms in both Ecuador and the U.S.
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Aug 19, 2008 -- Peru Indigenous Mobilization Day 11: Talks Fail and Tensions Increase Around Controversial FTA Legislation...
Negotiations Suspended, More Violence Feared as Peruvian Government Declares State of Emergency Suspending Civil Rights
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| San Francisco, CA – International human rights organizations today called on the Peruvian authorities to use good-faith dialogue and compromise, not violence, to end the peaceful actions taken by indigenous communities to protest controversial enabling legislation for the US-Peru free trade agreement.
Following a breakdown of talks between Peru’s Environment Minister and indigenous leaders last...
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Aug 18, 2008 -- Chevron Paying Heavy Price For Texaco's Mistakes in Ecuador, Says Amazon Defense Coalition ...
Talk of Settlement Reflects Dwindling Legal Options After Court Expert Finds Damages in Billions
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| Quito, Ecuador – Chevron's surprise announcement on Friday that it would be open to talks to resolve a possible $16.3 billion liability for environmental damage in Ecuador reflects the company's dwindling legal options in a long-running lawsuit over who pays for the clean-up of what even Chevron now acknowledges is a huge disaster, the Amazon Defense Coalition said today.
It also reflects how b...
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Aug 13, 2008 -- Chevron Rebukes Own Washington Lobbyist for Embarrassing Comments on Ecuador Legal Case...
Suggested U.S. Government Shouldn't Allow "Little Countries" To "Screw Around" With Big Companies
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| Washington, DC -– With pressure mounting from a major environmental lawsuit in Ecuador, Chevron has publicly rebuked one of its Washington lobbyists who had suggested "little countries" like Ecuador shouldn't be allowed by the U.S. government to "screw around" with large companies by letting lawsuits proceed against them in foreign courts.
The anonymous lobbyist was quoted in Newsweek article ...
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Aug 11, 2008 -- Indigenous Demonstrations Against Free Trade Agreement Bring Peruvian Amazon to a Standstill...
Thousands Angered by President Garcia’s Roll Back on Native Land Rights Peacefully Take Over Camisea Oil and Gas Installations
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San Francisco, CA – A wave of demonstrations and blockades by indigenous communities angry at a “free trade” deal with the United States, swept across the Peruvian Amazon over the weekend. The actions coincided with UN-declared Indigenous Peoples Day.
Called by Peru’s national indigenous organization AIDESEP in response to recent attempts to weaken indigenous ...
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Aug 01, 2008 -- Chevron Accused of Misleading Investors over $16 Billion Litigation Risk on Eve of Earnings Report...
Lawsuit’s Plaintiffs Claim Oil Giant Avoiding Full Disclosure
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| QUITO, Ecuador--In advance of Chevron’s quarterly earnings report, representatives of Amazon indigenous leaders are warning oil industry analysts and the public markets that Chevron’s management is downplaying the company’s $16 billion litigation risk in a historic environmental case in Ecuador.
Representatives of the indigenous groups that brought the case say that Chevron’s recent 10-Q filing...
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