San Francisco Bay Guardian | In an environmental justice lawsuit with major international implications, ChevronTexaco is battling plaintiffs representing 30,000 residents of northeastern Ecuador who claim they were harmed by the toxic mess the San Ramon-based oil giant left in their communities. The case, Aguinda v.
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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Extends Precautionary Measures in Favor of Sarayaku
Quito, Ecuador - On December 17, 2003 the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, based in Washington D.C., extended the Precautionary Measures granted in favor of Sarayaku for an additional six months.This extension is primarily based on the grave incidents that occurred on December 4th and 5th of 2003 when several
Religious Leaders Blast Oil Cleanup in Ecuador
Contra Costa Times | Pleasant Hill - Three community leaders have returned from a visit to Ecuador, and Wednesday night they showed pictures from their trip of oil-slicked rivers and sludge-filled pits.ChevronTexaco paid $40 million to clean up the spilled and dumped waste it left behind when it pulled out of the Amazon in 1992, but the pe
Seeking Balance: Growth vs. Culture in Amazon
New York Times | Pumpuentsa, Ecuador — As international energy companies move into the Amazon basin to tap some of the last untouched oil and natural gas reserves, more and more natives are fighting to keep them out. Oil workers and contractors have been kidnapped, company officials say. Equipment has been vandalized.
An Announcement by the Kichwa People of Sarayacu
Puyo, Ecuador - The Kichwa People of Sarayacu, in fulfillment of its historic declaration that it will defend its ancestral territories and its absolute opposition to petroleum related exploitation on its lands, is now informing all authorities (whether they be at the local, provincial, national or international levels) as we
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
BOLETIN INFORMATIVO - Resguardo Indígena Unido U’wa, Cubará (Boyacá)
ECOPETROL en el año 1.985 inicia actividades petroleras en territorio ancestral U’wa con el proyecto de explotación en Caño Limón (Arauca), la construcción del oleoducto Caño Limón Coveñas, y la construcción de la Estación de bombeo en territorio de la comunidad indígena de Tamarana”Sutota” en el corr
The Hunt for Black Gold Leaves a Stain in Ecuador; As ChevronTexaco Faces a Major Lawsuit, Evidence Portrays a Company and a Nation that for Years Showed Little Concern for the Environment
Los Angeles Times | Lago Agrio, EcuadorWhen Texaco contractors showed up at Monica Torres' wood shack in the jungle, they said they had come to clean up the mess the company had left behind.A pool of black oil sludge sat like a tar pit in her backyard, dumped by the company years earlier while drilling nearby.
Controversial Oil Projects in the Amazon Spark Shareholder Resolution for Houston-based Burlington Resources Inc. Investors Call on Oil Company to Adopt Policy on Indigenous Peoples Amazon Indigenous Peoples Reaffirm Opposition to Burlington’s Plans t
Resolution Text at End.Boston - Today Boston Common Asset Management filed a shareholder resolution with Houston-based Burlington Resources Inc. calling on the company to adopt a policy on indigenous peoples. Boston Common filed the resolution on behalf of its client, the Brethren Benefit Trust, Inc.
Victory for Peru’s Nahua People as Oil Development is Removed from their Territories
The Nahua, an indigenous people in initial contact with the outside world, have learnt that plans for oil exploration in their territories adjacent to the controversial Camisea Gas Project in Peru’s remote southeastern Amazon, have been abandoned in the face of strong local and international condemnation.
Peru’s Nahua Indigenous Leaders Come Out of Isolation to Say No to Oil Right to Life At Risk As Camisea Project Companies Eye Indigenous Rainforest Refuge Photos available from Shinai Serjali
A delegation of Nahua, an indigenous people in initial contact with the outside world, has arrived in Lima from a remote corner of the Amazon rainforest to call on the Peruvian government to remove oil concessions from their territories.
Damage Estimate in Ecuador Lawsuit Mounts to $6 Billion
Los Angeles Times | A new study says the environmental cost of Texaco's oil drilling is higher than thought.Bogota, Colombia — Lawyers for about 30,000 Ecuadoreans suing ChevronTexaco Corp.
Scientist Recommends Petroecuador Face Pollution Trial
Associated Press | Lago Agrio, Ecuador - A Spanish scientist working with plaintiffs in a lawsuit accusing Texaco of polluting part of Ecuador's Amazon jungle said Wednesday that the company's former partner – state-owned Petroecuador – should also face trial.
Delegation of East Bay Religious and Labor Leaders to Travel to Ecuador to Witness ChevronTexaco’s Oil Damage in Amazon Rainforest
Mission to Coincide with Presiding Judge’s Visits to Oil Fields in Historic Environmental Trial against the Oil Giant in EcuadorPart of Expanding Exchange between Ecuadorian Indigenous Communities and East Bay Residents Concerned about ChevronTexaco’s OperationsInterviews, Video footage, high-resolution digi
Chevron Would Face $5 Billion Tab for Amazon Cleanup, Expert Says--Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal | Lago Agrio, Ecuador - Cleaning up toxic wastes in the Ecuadorean Amazon region could cost ChevronTexaco Corp. more than $5 billion and take as long as 10 years, according to a U.S. expert advising the plaintiffs in a lawsuit being tried in this ramshackle, frontier oil town.
Testimony Ends in Oil Giant's Ecuador Trial
Sacramento Bee | Lago Agrio, Ecuador - Testimony in the oil pollution trial of ChevronTexaco came to a close Wednesday with a spectacular pre-dawn lightning storm capping three days of sometimes explosive evidence.The final stretch of this weeklong trial included testimony from a former minister of Ecuador's Ministry of Mines and Energ
Oil Major Forced to Answer Amazon Charge of Damaging the Environment
Financial Times | On the fourth floor of a rundown building in a small town in Ecuador, a courtroom has been freshly painted and newly furnished.The decision being taken in this nondescript building will have far-reaching repercussions for the oil industry and developing nations where oil companies have long operated.It is Judge
Ex-Energy Minister Says Texaco Knew it was Polluting Amazon
San Francisco Chronicle | Texaco knew it was damaging the environment when it launched operations in the Amazon jungle three decades ago, a former energy minister testified Monday in a civil trial against California-based ChevronTexaco. Retired army Gen.
The Week of Truth for ChevronTexaco. Testimonies Continue, Remediation Costs are Presented and the Plaintiffs Mobilize. Bianca Jagger, international human rights leader, returns to Ecuador to show her support for the people affected by ChevronTexaco
The Week of Truth for ChevronTexaco begins today in the Superior Court of Lago Agrio.The lawyers for the plaintiffs suing ChevronTexaco will be available three times a day to inform the press of what will be presented each day and what occurred throughout the day; at 8am at the Grand Hotel of Lago, at noon in front of
Summary of most recent and complete study of Texaco’s Operations in the Ecuadorian Amazon Conducted by Petroecuador and Frente de Defensa de la Amazonia
This study was conducted to show the reality of life in the Amazon due to the contamination from oil camps and wells operated by Texaco. From this study, it is known that of the 1,017 families visited 957 are affected, 57 are not, and 3 famiies did not respond due to lack of information on the subject.
Showdown in the Ecuadoran Jungle - Rare Class-Action Pollution Trial Pits Indians Against U.S. Oil Company
Washington Post Foreign Service | Lago Agrio, Ecuador - Under a warm setting sun, a half dozen children gathered Tuesday around a plastic tub filling with water from a tube snaking from the ground.
Texaco Goes on Trial in Ecuador Pollution Case
The New York Times | Lago Agrio, Ecuador - When René Arévalo draws water from his well, it is brown and gummy, requiring him to run it through a makeshift filtering system outside his wood-plank home in the jungle outside this town.Like thousands of other people here, he suspects the water was fouled by the waste an American oil company
At Last, ChevronTexaco’s Cover-Up about Remediation is Scientifically Confirmed New Study by Plaintiffs Proves that Each One of the 207 Waste Pits “Cleaned Up” Contains Petroleum The 1,200-Page Study to be Presented Today in Court
Lago Agrio — As part of the new study, researchers drilled to depths of 3 meters en each of the 207 waste pits that supposedly cleaned up by Texaco.
Ecuadorans Put Chevron on Trial Company Accused in Class-Action Lawsuit of Despoiling Amazon Region with Crude
San Francisco Chronicle | A class-action lawsuit against oil giant ChevronTexaco opened today in a small, cinderblock courthouse in a frontier oil town in the Ecuadorian rainforest, charging the company with despoiling the environment with millions of gallons of spilled crude oil during the 1970s and '80s.
Historic Trial Against ChevronTexaco Begins Tomorrow in Ecuador; Protests at Company’s Headquarters in California
30,000 Rainforest Peoples Against The Company, Demanding A Full Cleanup of Extensive Pollution In Ecuadorian AmazonFirst Time U.S.
Sucesion Presidencial y Asamblea Nacional Constituyente
A LA OPINION PUBLICA NACIONALLa Organizacion Indigena Chiquitana (OICH), preocupada por la crisis nacional que vive el pais y conocedores de la conducta del gobierno con los sectores y mas excluidos y marginados de nuestro pais, como somos los indigenas, campesinos, mineros y obreros, asi tambien ante la
Corruption has bled democracy
(espanol sigue ingles)By Jorge Cortés F. CEADES BOLIVIA ceadescz@entelnet.boIn May of the 2003 in the Seoul 11th International Anticorruption Conference (IACC) we denounced the serious problems of corruption that characterize the Bolivian government and the disastrous consequences this had for B
Speech by Bianca Jagger in Quito Following Her Tour of Amazon Region Contaminated by ChevronTexaco
(version en espanol sigue ingles)Welcome and thank you for coming. I am going to talk about what I have witnessed in the last few days in the Ecuadorian Amazon during my first trip to your beautiful country.
Bianca Jagger Promotes Lawsuit Against ChevronTexaco in Ecuador
By Associated Press | Quito, Ecuador - Celebrity activist Bianca Jagger criticized U.S. oil company ChevronTexaco, which is being sued by a group of poor Ecuadoreans who say the company's past drilling damaged their rainforest homeland.The plaintiffs, represented by U.S.
El “Juicio Ambiental del Siglo” Enfrenta a 50.000 Habitantes del Oriente Contra ChevronTexaco… Bianca Jagger Visita la Selva Amazónica del Ecuador en la Víspera del Histórico Juicio Multimillonario El caso de los habitantes del Oriente contra C
Nueva York, NY (Estados Unidos) y Lago Agrio, Ecuador - La líder de los derechos humanos internacionales Bianca Jagger llegará al Ecuador esta semana para dar inicio a una histórica recorrida por la selva amazónica apenas dos semanas antes del comienzo del juicio sin precedentes a celebrarse en Lago Agrio, donde los habi