Finally – for the first time ever a large multi-national corporation is being held accountable for terrible environmental practices in a developing country. The long legal battle between Ecuadorians and Chevron corporation has ended with the court ordering Chevron to pay $8.64 Billion.
Chevron has just filed a civil racketeering lawsuit against the plaintiffs in its environmental battle in the courts with Ecuadorian villagers. Afraid of the looming judgment against it, Chevron is making yet another effort to discredit its opponents. In his article for Greenwire and the New York Times, Lawrence Hurley argues that this is part of a wider legal strategy,
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During his recent visit to the tar sands in Alberta, James Cameron had lot to say and made a lot of sense. In fact, I share a lot of the views he expressed. We are all dependent on oil / petrol, for our cars, to heat our homes to transport our food and goods that we rely on everyday. We must increase the shift to greener technologies as fast as we can, to reduce our dependency on oil. We must also be realistic that we will continue to rely on oil for years to come, and the tar sands deposit in Alberta, being the second largest deposit on the planet, will play a key role in our energy supply in the years to come.
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In an effort to help raise awareness about the ongoing legal battle between the Ecuadorian villagers and Chevron corporation, I have spent the last 3 or 4 years writing and editing a completely fictional novel, entitled Slick Revenge.
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The ad campaigns and publicity thrown out are nothing more than spin to make us think that the Alberta Oil sands are not so bad. Don’t be fooled. It is DIRTY oil, that we as consumers can’t help but consume. And it ruins Canada’s image in the eyes of environmentalists the world over.
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It upsets me how hypocritical the government and people of the United States are. While the BP oil spill in the Gulf is one of the worst oil spills the world has ever seen, the response and media attention it has received are disproportionate to the attention some of the other spills have received, like the spills and dumping in the forests of Ecuador.
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While it was written over a month ago, having just re-read the letter from Atossa Soltani, the Executive Director of Amazon Watch, to John Watson, the new CEO of Chevron Corp, I felt the need to post it on my site.
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The ongoing legal battle between Chevron and a group of Ecuadorian villagers continues. In the past, Chevron has vowed to continue legal proceedings for as long as it can, alluding to the fact that they will continue appeal any verdict against them. It does seem that a verdict against them is likely. Perhaps even in the amount of $27 Billion in damages.
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Chevron Corporation has maintained that despite the upcoming legal decision against it in Ecuador, it will fight the decision for years to come and not pay the judgment against it.
“We’re not paying and we’re going to fight this for years if not decades into the future,” said Chevron spokesman Don Campbell.
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Corporations are causing so many of the biggest problems that humans and our planet face today. They also have the power to solve a lot of these problems. But corporations are entities with tunnel vision towards one thing: profit.
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New evidence has come to light which suggests that cell phones and the waves that they emit, may in fact be contributing to the demise of worldwide bee populations.
This is scary, because bees pollinate our crops… and if there are no bees to pollinate crops, than there will be no crops. And if there are no crops, than there will be no food. And the problem is happening both in North America and Europe.
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