Eye on the Amazon

March 31, 2011 – 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.

March 25, 2011 – 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.

March 23, 2011 – 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. 

March 17, 2011 – "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."

March 15, 2011 – 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.

March 11, 2011 – 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.