Contra Costa Times | San Ramon - Adding a celebrity voice to a long-running battle, human rights activist Bianca Jagger plans to lead a delegation to ChevronTexaco's annual meeting today to allege that a former subsidiary caused massive pollution in an Ecuadorian rain forest.Jagger and some residents of the region who have unsuccessfully s
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Bianca Jagger Speaks About Ecuadorean Health at Chevron Texaco Annual Meeting
Excerpted and Edited by Amazon Watch from Associated Press | Thrusting a celebrity's punch into a long-running battle ...(international human rights advocate) Bianca Jagger urged ChevronTexaco Corp.
Jagger to Address ChevronTexaco Shareholders; Activist to Push for an Investigation into Allegations of Serious Illnesses from Contamination in Equador
Tri-Valley Herald | Human rights activist Bianca Jagger will urge ChevronTexaco to take responsibility for pollution and contamination in the Ecuadorean Amazon when shespeaks at the company's annual shareholders meeting (tomorrow).Jagger will stand with a few shareholders who want their company to investigate allegations that villa
Pressure Mounts on ChevronTexaco to Confront its Responsibility for the “Rainforest Chernobyl” $6 Billion in Potential Liability For World’s Largest Oil Disaster Rising Tide of Institutional Investors Call on CEO David O’Reilly to Report on Env
San Ramon, CA – As ChevronTexaco prepares for its Annual Shareholder Meeting on Wednesday, April 28th at its bucolic suburban office park outside of San Francisco, a host of players are moving closer to creating a “tipping point” to force the petroleum giant to confront its responsibility for the “Rainforest Chernobyl
Burlington Resources' Plans for Ecuador Run Into Opposition
New York Times | Houston - Burlington Resources, a large independent energy company, has been seeking to drill for oil in a remote part of the Ecuadorean Amazon since the late 1990's, when it acquired an exploration property there. Pablo Tsere, an Indian leader from the same area, has been opposing the company's efforts for just as long.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
Tribe Delivers Message at Shareholder Meeting
Houston Chronicle | Wearing his traditional headdress made of toucan feathers, tribal leader Pablo Tsere asked Houston-based Burlington Resources to stay out of his back yard — the Amazon rain forest.Tsere is chief of the 80,000-member Shuar tribe of southeastern Ecuador.
Tribe from Ecuador Protests Burlington Oil Drilling Project in Amazon
AP | The leader of a tribe in Ecuador traveled from the Amazon rainforest to Texas for a shareholders' meeting at a major oil and gas exploration company in order to express his people's opposition to an oil drilling project in theenvironmentally threatened region.Pablo Tsere, chief of the 80,000-member Shuar tribe
Amazonian Indigenous Chief Addresses Burlington Resources Shareholders on Controversial Oil Projects “Immediately Withdraw from our Territory.” Investors Voice Concerns at Company Meeting --Recent footage of growing conflict, the indigenous commun
Houston — Today at Burlington Resources’ annual meeting, shareholders were addressed directly by the chief of the Shuar people of the Ecuadorian Amazon who had traveled thousands of miles and several days to voice the adamant opposition of the region’s indigenous peoples to Burlington’s planned oil projects on their t
Burlington Ecuador Oil Project Seen Facing Showdown
Reuters | Houston - A long-running fight to halt oil exploration in the Ecuadorean Amazon by U.S. independent energy producer Burlington Resources (BR.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and its partner is is nearing potential conflict with the threat of military intervention looming, indigenous leaders said yesterday.
Burlington Urged to Exit Amazon Blocks
International Oil Daily | An Amazonian Indian leader wearing a head-dress made of red, yellow and black Toucan feathers urged Burlington Resources on Wednesday to drop plans to explore for oil on two large tracts of land in the jungles of southeast Ecuador.
Message from the Shuar People of the Ecuadorian Amazon to Burlington Resources at its Annual General Meeting of Investors
“We ask for the immediate departure of all oil companies from the territories of the Shuar, Achuar and Quichuas peoples.We Shuar are an ancient people who continue to live in our territory according to our customs and our own cosmovision.
Amazonian Indigenous Leaders Travel to Houston – Call on Burlington Resources to Immediately Abandon Controversial Oil Drilling Projects on Their Territories
Burlington Investors to Raise Concern at Corporation’s Annual Meeting about Growing Tension around the Rainforest Projects10-Minute Video Exposé on the Threats from Burlington’s Ecuador Oil Projects to Premiere – Recent footage of growing conflict, the indigenous communities, rainforest, and oil
Texaco Shareholders Want Probe on Ecuador Suit
Reuters | Quito, Ecuador - A group of ChevronTexaco Corp.
ChevronTexaco Investors Travel to Ecuador for Fact-Finding Mission about the Corporation’s Controversial Oil Operations Representatives Control More than $360 Million in Company Stock Will View Oil Pits, Meet with Indigenous Communities Suing ChevronT
Quito, Ecuador — Representatives from institutions holding more than $360 million of ChevronTexaco stock will travel to Ecuador tomorrow for a weeklong fact-finding mission about the corporation’s former oil operations in the Amazon rainforest.
Protesters Make Plea to Oil Giant
Contra CostaTimes | Protesters were scheduled to kick off the monthly Days of Action rallies Wednesday night in San Ramon, where the theme of the St.
Houston-based Burlington Resources Prepares to Use Ecuadorian Military to Forcibly Enter Amazon Indian Lands --- Military Invasion Expected As Early as Tomorrow --
Indians Declares a State of Emergency and Call for Area to be Permanently ProtectedBurlington Investors Raise Concern about Growing Controversy and Rights Violations – Broadcast quality digital video and high-resolution stills of the community, rainforest, oil drilling and conflict available –
Sarayaku Declares State of Emergency
El Comercio | The community of Sarayaku (Pastaza) has declared a state ofemergency to defend its territories against oil exploration.The decision was the result of a visit by President Lucio Gutierrez and Minister of Energy and Mines Carlos Arboleda to Pastaza on January 18.
Kapawi Journal-- Ecuador Indians Fend Off Oil Companies with Tourism
New York Times | An Achuar Indian, Cristóbal Callera treads through the jungle like a child of the rain forest. But on a recent day he had a gaggle of heavy-footed tourists in tow, the rain falling in waves and the trail mired in mud. Mr.
New President of Ecuadorian Superior Court Appointed to Preside over ChevronTexaco Case in Amazon Region. The People Affected by Texaco are hopeful with the New President
The people affected by the oil operations of Texaco are confident that the changing of the President of the Superior Court of Lago Agrio will not stop the process that was initiated under the predecessor on the lawsuit against ChevronTexaco.
In Ecuador, Taking an Oil Giant to Task
International Herald Tribune | EcuadorNew York - Drilling for oil without adequate safeguards is one of the most destructive processes to man and the environment. This fact has been particularly apparent in the Ecuadorean area of the Amazon basin, where Texaco - which later merged with Chevron - drilled for oil from 1964 through 1992.
Rabbi's Heartbreaking Visit to Amazon Bears Witness to Rainforest Ruin
J, the Jewish news weekly of Northern California | Rabbi Dan Goldblatt returned from Ecuador recently, and what he saw therenearly broke his heart.The spiritual leader of the independent Beth Chaim Congregation in Danvilleand a longtime environmental activist, Goldblatt did not go as a tourist.
Fighting Goliath Ecuadoreans Seek Billions from ChevronTexaco in a Widely Watched Environmental Justice Case
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.
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
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.
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
