San Ramon – The 12 Ecuadorian rainforest leaders who traveled thousands of miles from the Amazon jungle to San Ramon have made significant headway in their campaign for public support in the Tri-Valley area, although the main person they want to meet with –ChevronTexaco CEO David O’Reilly – has ignored them comp
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“Our People are Dying…We Can wait No Longer” A Real-Life “David v Goliath” Story: Amazon Rainforest People Trek Thousands of Miles to Seek Justice for Environmental Disaster Twice the Size of the Exxon Valdez By foot, canoe, bus, car and jet,
Lago Agrio, Ecuador and San Ramon, CA – After filing a historic lawsuit charging ChevronTexaco with massive toxic dumping in the Amazon Rainforest, a 12-person delegation of indigenous leaders and campesinos – representing 30,000 rainforest peoples – is traveling thousands of miles to ChevronTexaco’s hometown to seek
Big Oil's Dirty Secrets - Oil's Dark Side
The Economist | Corporate ethicsThe ethics of the oil industry are coming under unprecedented scrutinyEVEN as it celebrates soaring profits - thanks to higher prices during the war - and soaring share prices, now war is over, the oil industry faces a new danger largely of its own creation.
The IDB urged to deny taxpayer dollars for the Camisea gas project
Enrique V. IglesiasPresidentInter-American Development BankWashington, D.C. 20577U.S.A.Dear Enrique V.
Indigenous Leaders March on the IDB Denouncing Camisea Project’s “Irreparable Harm to Indigenous Lives
On May 9 2003, over 50 indigenous protesters joined together to march through Washington to the Inter-American Development Bank head office to denounce the Camisea Gas Project’s “irreparable harm to the biodiversity and the life of indigenous peoples who have lived in these lands for thousands of years.”Peruvian
Amazon Watch is building on more than 28 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
Ecuadorean Indians Sue Texaco
BBC NEWS | A group of Ecuadorean Indians is filing a billion-dollar lawsuit in Quito against the US oil giant, ChevronTexaco.They accuse the company of destroying large areas of rainforest and contaminating local land and rivers.They are also alleging the company's activities have led to an increased risk of ca
Suit Says ChevronTexaco Dumped Poisons in Ecuador
The New York Times | A group of American lawyers representing more than 30,000 indigenous people in Ecuador filed a $1 billion lawsuit against the ChevronTexaco Corporation yesterday.The suit was filed in Ecuador on behalf of 88 plaintiffs in Lago Agrio, a small oil town in northern Ecuador, and asserts that during two decades of operation
Ecuadorean Court to Handle Villagers vs. ChevronTexaco
The Los Angeles Times | Quito, Ecuador - Lawyers representing some 30,000 impoverished Ecuadoreans are expected to sue ChevronTexaco Corp. today, accusing the second-largest U.S.
Camisea Project Sparks Protest by Amazon Indigenous Peoples at Inter-American Development Bank Friday May 9, 1:00PM
WHAT: Indigenous and environmental leaders will hold a demonstration at the Inter-American Development Bank against the U.S.
Case in Ecuador Viewed As Key Pollution Fight -U.S. Legal Team Suing ChevronTexaco
The Washington Post | For tourists wanting to see the Ecuadoran Amazon, Lago Agrio is a major jumping off point.
ChevronTexaco Facing Trial in Ecuador Court for Billion-Dollar Rainforest Destruction U.S. Federal Court: Ecuador Decision and Judgment Enforceable in the United States Lawyers: Damages Could Exceed the $5 Billion of the Exxon Valdez -- Major Health P
Lago Agrio, Ecuador - ChevronTexaco will face off against indigenous Ecuadorians in an Ecuadorian court and the stakes are massive.
USA: ChevronTexaco Faces $5 Bln Ecuador Pollution Suit
Reuters English News Service | New York - ChevronTexaco (CVX.N) next week will begin its defense in a multibillion dollar legal battle in Ecuador against accusations it has polluted portions of the country's Amazon region, the company said.
ChevronTexaco Faces Billion-Dollar Lawsuit In Ecuador
Dow Jones Business News | New York - A tiny courthouse in an isolated pocket of the Amazon could soon hold the key to a billion-dollar lawsuit against U.S. oil giant ChevronTexaco Corp. (NYSE:CVX - News).
'Sour Lake' Suit Finally Gets Trial -- in Ecuador/ChevronTexaco Accused of Amazon Dumping
SF Chronicle | When Texaco quit drilling in Ecuador in 1992 after nearly 30 years, it left behind what critics describe as an enormous toxic dump of 1.8 million gallons of spilled crude oil – almost twice the size of the Exxon Valdez spill.But next Tuesday, 30,000 jungle residents of Ecuador and Peru whose natural surrounding
Nahua Community Inside Nahua Kugapakori Reserve Say No to All Oil Development!
“If another company comes here, our rivers and land will be destroyed!”In April 2003, the Nahua people of Santa Rosa de Serjali within the Nahua Kugapakori State Reserve took the extraordinary step of issuing a public declaration via the advocacy group Shinai Serjali spelling out their complete opposition to all oi
Mass Non-Violent Direct Action at ChevronTexaco HQ Connects Chevron's Toxic Terrorism Around the World with Corporate Led "Second Invasion" of Iraq
Bay Area Anti-War Activists Mobilize en Masse to Re-affirm Opposition to the Illegal War and Occupation of IraqSan Ramon, CA – As the Bush administration instigates a full-scale occupation of Iraq and fires verbal warning shots at Syria, hundreds of Bay area residents participated in a mass non-violent direct a
ChevronTexaco Headquarters: Next Bay Area Action for Anti-War Activists-- Concerned Citizens Hold Press Conference at Richmond Refinery to Declare NO War in Iraq and NO Toxic War in Our Communities!
Richmond, CA - Representatives of Direct Action to Stop the War, Richmond community members affected by ChevronTexaco’s refinery, Labor, and citizens concerned with ChevronTexaco’s worldwide operations held a press conference in front of the Chevron Refinery at 841 Chevron Way today at 11am to announce a massive non-viole
Protesters Take Aim at ChevronTexaco Activists Plan to Shut Down Headquarters in San Ramon on April 14
Tri-Valley Herald | San Ramon - Anti-war protesters will target key corporate, military and governmental sites in the East Bay today.ChevronTexaco is not on the organizers' list for the national day of civil disobedience.
Peruvian Indigenous Organizations Call for Camisea Project To Withdraw from State Reserve for Indigenous Peoples Who Reject Contact with Outside World Inter-American Development Bank Official Responds, “What You Want Will Not Happen!”
In a statement to Peruvian authorities, international banks and the international community dated March 2003, Peru’s national indigenous organization AIDESEP joined with COMARU, the Machiguenga Council for the Urubamba River, to condemn the impacts of the Camisea Gas Project on thousands of indigenous families living in its
Inter-American Development Bank President Iglesias Admits Serious Flaws in Camisea Gas Project: Still, No Commitment to Loan
In a meeting with international NGOs at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) annual meetings in Milan, Italy, President Enrique Iglesias and Senior IDB officials admitted that the Camisea gas project in Peru is problematic and controversial, as it is having negative impacts on the environment and on indigenous peoples.
El Gas de Camisea y los Pueblos Indígenas de la Amazonia Peruana Problemática y Propuestas
PresentaciónLa Asociación Interétnica de Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana, AIDESEP y el Consejo Machiguenga del río Urubamba, COMARU, organizaciones representativas de los pueblos indígenas de la Amazonía peruana a nivel nacional y local, respectivamente, presentamos el documento “El gas de Camisea y los Pueblos I
U.S. Public Banks Back in the Spotlight Over Financing for Camisea Gas Project in Peru’s Amazon Heartland Hunt Oil –Ally to President Bush –Faces Renewed Controversy As Disease Rocks Camisea Maps, Photos, Video Footage, Related Reports Available
Washington, DC – Today US NGOs issued a comprehensive statement to the Inter-American Development Bank, urging the rejection of financing for the controversial Camisea Gas Project in the remote Peruvian Amazon.
Record of Forced Contact By Camisea Project Companies in Nahua-Kugapakori Reserve
Below is a record of cases of forced contact with peoples living in voluntary isolation within the Nahua-Kugapakori State Reserve by Pluspetrol - operator and sponsor for the upstream (gas extraction) part of the Camisea Gas Project – and Veritas Energy Services, a Canadian company contracted by Pluspetrol to conduct seismi
Hunt Oil Invades Territories of Uncontacted Peoples in the Remote Peruvian Amazon
Hunt Oil, a Texas-based private oil company with close ties to the Bush family, is operating in the territories of uncontacted indigenous peoples in one of the remotest regions of the Peruvian Amazon. The Peruvian Ministry of Energy and Mines has given Hunt Oil, a major donor to the George W.
Ecuadorean Activists Berate ChevronTexaco Protesters Claim Oil Company Based in San Ramon Has Induced an Environmental Crisis
Tri-Valley Herald | San Ramon - Braving the rainfall, activists protested at headquarters of ChevronTexaco on Friday afternoon for oil contamination in Ecuador, which they said was twice as severe as the damage caused by the Exxon Valdez tanker crash. But the Ecuadorean crisis, activists assert, is not an accident.
ChevronTexaco Polluted Amazon, Group Says Ecuadorean Activists Face an August 2003 Deadline on Filing $600 Million Lawsuit
Contra Costa Times | San Francisco - Three Ecuadorean activists came to the Bay Area to cultivate public outrage against ChevronTexaco Corp., which they accuse of polluting the Amazon rain forest and poisoning 55,000 Indians."Texaco came to our home and destroyed our land, our territory," Toribio Aguinda, a leader of the Cofan tribe, told
Natives Seek Redress for Pollution Ecuadorans Blame Texaco for Environmental Destruction
Oakland Tribune | San Francisco, CA - Oil drilling has so damaged the environment in Ecuador that water is contaminated, few fish or game are edible and cancer cases are on the rise, tribal leaders from Ecuador and U.S. activists alleged Monday.
“Our People are Dying…We Can Wait No Longer” Ecuadorian Indigenous Leaders Arrive in Bay Area to Implore ChevronTexaco to Clean Up Toxic Waste in Amazon Region -- Leaders vow: “CLEAN UP. PAY UP. AND NEVER COME BACK!” as the petroleum polluter c
San Francisco, CA – As ChevronTexaco contemplates renewed operations in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest, indigenous leaders, representing 30,000 people, today traveled to San Francisco to tell the petroleum giant: “CLEAN UP. PAY UP.
Co Working on Peru's Camisea Gas Confident of IDB Loan
Dow Jones | Lima, Peru - The company developing a pipeline to transport natural gas from the Camisea project in Peru said Tuesday it is confident that the Inter-American Development Bank will approve a loan despite criticism from environmental groups.A mission from the IDB and the Andean Community's development agency, or CAF, is
