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.
Ecuador, and the people of Ecuador are on the cutting edge of environmental protection and responsibility.
First off, villagers in Ecuador, may be the first plaintiffs in the world to hold a large American multi-national corporation accountable for the environmental damage they have caused overseas. And it might cost Chevron up to $27 Billion. So it’s significant!
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Chevron Texaco, earned record profits last year, an astounding $23.93 Billion Dollars. Not bad for a year of economic turmoil and recession. As Americans and people around the world struggled to keep their homes and make ends meet, Chevron was rolling in the cash. It rode the wave of sky high oil prices during the summer. Please click here to view Chevron’s earnings report for the fourth quarter of ‘08 and the entire year. We all know that Oil corporations are for-profit entities, but it seems that while the rest of the world seems to be crashing and burning, their ongoing gouging seems excessive to me.
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Chevron Texaco is pulling out all the stops to try to shirk their responsibility in the Oil Disasters of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. To learn more about the environmental devastation, the terrible health effects and the destruction of the Indigenous way of life in the area, please visit www.ChevronToxico.com.
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