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Country: Ecuador
Campaign: The Chevron Toxic Legacy
Amazon Watch announces release of Crude Reflections/Cruda Realidad...
Jul 24, 2008,
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Amazon Watch is pleased to announce the recent release of the book Crude Reflections/Cruda Realidad: Oil, Ruin and Resistance in the Amazon Rainforest by Lou Dematteis and Kayana Szymczak. The book, which features a foreword by Trudie Styler and Sting, chronicles the human and environmental impact of oil drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon by Chevron (formerly Texaco).
In the affected region, ...
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Hesperian's New Book Supports the Struggle for Environmental Rights and Justice
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Jun 30, 2008,
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| By Jeff Conant
Aside from the damage to ecosystems, drilling, spilling, and burning oil cause an array of health problems, such as asthma, cancers, skin disease, and nerve damage. This is one of the reasons why the environmental justice movement tries to clean up and shut down refineries, why we campaign to protect the Amazon and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and why OilWatch and ...
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Shareholder pressure grows on Chevron and ConocoPhillips ...
Feb 27, 2007,
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| Shareholders at both oil majors have filed resolutions ahead of this spring’s annual general meetings seeking greater accountability on environmental performance and indigenous rights, respectively. A key area of concern that spawned the resolutions is the companies’ role in the Amazon. The Chevron resolution demands a report explaining how the company interprets and complies with national environ...
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Amazon Watch Letter to Chevron CEO Over Apparent Intimidation of Ecuador Plaintiffs...
Nov 07, 2006,
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| Chevron management in the US asked what measures taken to ascertain possible involvement of Chevron employees or agents in human rights abuses perpetrated against plaintiffs' leaders and legal team....
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Chevron's Massive Liability: Amazon Watch Letter to Chevron Lawyer...
Oct 25, 2005,
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| October 25, 2005
Mr. Edward B. Scott
Vice President and General Counsel
Chevron International Exploration and Petroleum Company
6001 Bollinger Canyon Road
San Ramon, CA 94583
Dear Mr. Scott:
We write to provide an update on Amazon Watch’s assessment of the ongoing litigation against your company in Ecuador, in which Chevron faces legal charges that it is responsible for what expert...
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Clean Up Ecuador Campaign Update:
Photo Exhibit, Shareholder's Meeting and CVX Name Change......
May 31, 2005,
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| Environmental Justice for the Amazon
Amazonian Leaders, Activists, Photographers and Shareholders pressure ChevronTexaco to Clean Up Ecuador
Can you imagine an oil spill worse than the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska? Unfortunately, there is one in the middle of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador.
Between 1964 and 1992 Texaco, now Chevron Corp., explored and drilled in the Ecuadorian Am...
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Letter to CEO of ChevronTexaco on Corporate Governance Concerns ...
Apr 26, 2005,
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| Mr. David O’Reilly, Chairman and CEO
ChevronTexaco Corporation Inc.
6001 Bollinger Canyon Rd.
San Ramon, CA 94583
Dear Mr. O’Reilly:
I write on behalf of Amazon Watch to share issues of concern that have arisen with regard to the ongoing litigation against ChevronTexaco in Ecuador’s Amazon region. Many of these concerns implicate issues of fair dealing and corporate governance at the h...
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CVX LEGAL CASE UPDATE: Remediation of Waste Pits in Ecuadorian Amazon was inadequate!
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Dec 01, 2004,
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| Scientists Reveal Devastating Proof of Toxins In Suit Against ChevronTexaco in Ecuador
High Levels of Cancer-Causing Chemicals Found In “Remediated”Waste Pits
Quito, Ecuador– The harrowing results of one of the first judicial inspections of the areas contaminated by ChevronTexaco in Ecuador were announced on December 1, 2004 at a press conference at the Hotel Quito by scientist Edison Cam...
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CHEVRON TEXACO SHAREHOLDERS REFILE RESOLUTION ADDRESSING ECUADORIAN CONTAMINATION CONTROVERSY...
2005 CVX Resolution Below
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Nov 19, 2004,
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| For the second year in a row, ChevronTexaco shareholders have submitted a controversial resolution calling on the company to report on “new initiatives by management to address the specific health and environmental concerns of communities affected by unremediated waste and other sources of oil-related contamination in the area where Texaco operated in Ecuador.” The resolution received 9% of votes ...
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Update on ChevronTexaco Trial and Inspections:
Phase II of ChevronTexaco’s “Rainforest Chernobyl”
Trial is underway
As the judge begins officia...
Aug 19, 2004,
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| Ten months after the “Rainforest Chernobyl” trial began in the Supreme Court in Lago Agrio, Ecuador, the judicial inspections--marking Phase II of the trial--began yesterday at one of Texaco’s former oil camps, Campo Sacha in Joya de las Sachas, in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
In October 2003, the judge of the Supreme Court of Lago Agrio presided over six days of testimonies and collected thousands...
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