A notoriously corporate-friendly and undemocratic investor arbitration panel announced that the people of Ecuador should pay Chevron $220 million, and President Noboa has indicated he will comply. This is outrageous given that Chevron was sued and found responsible for deliberately dumping billions of gallons of toxic waste in the Amazon.
Chevron is still responsible for at least 16 billion gallons of toxic waste that continue to poison the rainforest, creating one of the largest oil related disasters in history. Ecuadorian courts ordered a $9.5 billion cleanup, and any Chevron assets in the country belong to the people who won that case. Tens of thousands of Indigenous and campesino families still live with contaminated water, health harms, and destroyed livelihoods.
Paying Chevron public funds would be a grave injustice that rewards a repeat offender and deepens the suffering of communities still waiting for clean water and real accountability.
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President Noboa –
I am writing to urge you not to pay Chevron any part of the $220 million arbitration award. Chevron deliberately dumped billions of gallons of toxic waste in the Amazon and Ecuadorian communities are still living with the contamination.
Any public funds should go toward cleaning up Chevron’s pollution and supporting the Indigenous and campesino families who continue to suffer, not toward rewarding a corporation responsible for one of the largest oil-related disasters in history. Any Chevron assets in Ecuador must be given to those affected by its operations who won a legitimate $9.5 billion judgment upheld by Ecuador’s highest courts.
Please stand with the people of Ecuador and refuse to pay Chevron a single dime.
Sincerely,
[Your Name]
