Following the damning report last month documenting 18 major spills, this new video from our partners in Peru documents a major new spill of over 400 barrels of crude.
Eye on the Amazon
Chaos on the Madeira: The Trouble with Dams in the Amazon
The Madeira River: Life Before the Dams is a beautiful example of the power of film to capture natural beauty and human emotion, mostly through the play and laughter of children.
Journey to the Amazon, A Forest Worth Fighting For
From the contamination left by Chevron's former operations to the pristine and breathtaking Yasuni National Forest, we witnessed the true human and environmental cost of oil extraction, as well as the beauty that is worth saving.
Rigging the System? RT TV Reports on Chevron's Hypocrisy
ChevronInEcuador.com | "Well, we have yet another example of a major corporation – an oil giant, in fact – that has shown the world it intends to play by the rules only when it suits them."
Is Chevron Paying Hush Money to Ecuador "Dirty Tricks" Guy?
ChevronInEcuador.com | Diego Borja, self-proclaimed "dirty tricks" operative for Chevron in Ecuador is scheduled to appear in court today to answer questions about his attempts to entrap a judge overseeing the monumental trial against the oil company.
U.S. Court's Extraordinary Moves to Halt Enforcement of Chevron Verdict
ChevronInEcuador.com | Besides being "a slap in the face" of the Ecuadorian victims of Chevron's abuses, the recent ruling by Judge Kaplan also seems like an extraordinary abuse of power. The job of determining whether a particular sector of the economy or individual industry demands extraordinary legal protection belongs to Congress, not the courts.
Chevron's Human Rights Hitmen
SFGate City Brights | After more than seventeen years of intense legal battle, last month, Chevron, the second largest oil company in the United States, was found guilty in Ecuadorian courts for massive environmental contamination of the Amazon and was ordered to pay upwards of $9 billion in damages. This morning I was on KQED's Forum radio program discussing this...
Peru's Battle for "Independence"
As Peru systematically opens up its Amazon to oil and gas drilling, Amazon Watch is standing with many indigenous communities as they proclaim, "not in our territory!" But in cases where oil operations do proceed in these fragile rainforests, the question emerges how can the affected communities themselves monitor the environmental, social, and...
Chevron's Dirty Laundry
Multinational corporations like Chevron are experts at maintaining a veneer of gentility and levelheaded reason. They have to be, of course; when you wreak as much havoc as Chevron does on lives, communities and ecosystems around the world, the only way not to invite universal public disgust and condemnation is to make sure the people who are your...
