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Ecuador’s Indigenous People Take Their Case Against Chevron To Canada

December 21, 2016 Yasmin Khan, www.counterpunch.org Resist! Canada, Chevron, Ecuador, Indigenous Peoples, Lawsuit

By Yasmin Khan for Counter Punch - With eyes red with fatigue, Pablo Fajardo stood in front of a room of activists in Toronto, Canada explaining the plight of the more than 30,000 indigenous peoples and farmers whose lands in the Ecuadorian Amazon are covered in toxic sludge. Fajardo was presenting evidence that the pollution stems from decades of oil extractions by Chevron-Texaco, one of the world’s largest oil companies. He and his clients are fighting a drawn-out legal battle that is part of a growing list of high-profile cases brought by indigenous communities against extractive industries...

Redacted Tonight: Rev Pinkney, Chevron, Robots And More

November 6, 2015 Staff, www.youtube.com Resistance Report Chevron, Elections, Political Prisoner

By Staff of Redacted Tonight - Comedian and host Lee Camp talks about Reverend Ed Pinkney – the political prisoner from Michigan you’ve never heard of. He’s slated to be locked up for years because he got in the way of a major corporation. Denver police arrest volunteers for building micro-homes for the homeless, Chevron sues Ecuadorians for suing Chevron over Amazon oil spill, and Carlos Delgado explains why robots are scarier than capitalism. Also – John F. O’Donnell reports from the second Republican Presidential debate in Colorado.

‘Yes, I Lied’: Vindicating Villagers, Star Chevron Witness Busted For Perjury

November 3, 2015 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org Educate! Chevron, Corruption, Oil

By Deirdre Fulton for Common Dreams - In what is being called "a dramatic turn" in a protracted legal battle, documents publicized Monday reveal that the star witness in a case pitting rainforest villagers against a multinational oil giant has admitted to lying under oath in an effort to help Chevron avoid paying a $9.5 billion judgment for deliberate pollution of the Ecuadorian Amazon. "Yes sir, I lied there...I wasn't being truthful," ex-judge Alberto Guerra reportedly told an international arbitration tribunal earlier this year when asked about his claim that the plaintiffs' legal team offered him a $300,000 bribe to ghostwrite the ruling in their favor.

Chevron Targeted In Solidarity With Unist’ot’en

August 20, 2015 Earth First!, www.earthfirstjournal.org Resist! Chevron, Maine, Oil Pipeline

By Earth First! - Chevron has attempted trespass on unceded Unist’ot’en land in so-called British Columbia to survey for its proposed Pacific Trails Pipeline, which would span 273 miles through largely unceded territory and transport one billion cubic feet of fracked gas per day—an unwanted and highly dangerous project. Members of the Unist’ot’en clan and their supporters have given Chevron a resounding NO, but Chevron, backed by the RCMP, is moving ahead with the project. Recently some folks in so-called Maine took action in solidarity with the Unist’ot’en. A banner was hung above a busy interstate that read “Support the Unist’ot’en. NO PIPELINES! Unistotencamp.com” with an image of the Chevron logo on fire.

Chevron’s US Media Strategy: Write The Headlines

July 23, 2015 Ed King, www.rtcc.org Educate! Chevron, Freedom of Press, Media, Oil & Gas

By Ed King in RTCC - It’s especially lucky to have a beneficent local employer, which regards economic growth as a priority. Sometimes those locals are even invited to the employer’s offices where they can conduct “actual research” and take job training classes. Welcome to the US West Coast, where fossil fuel giant Chevron owns the news and controls the messaging in a city of 100,000. Richmond also happens to be the location for one of the US$200 billion oil and gas major’s largest refineries, which employs 3,536 locals. This isn’t George Orwell’s 1984, it’s 2015: a media landscape where declining local coverage allows the Chevron-funded Richmond Standard news website to offer a “community driven” news source. In reality, it’s a platform for Chevron to try and rebuild community links that were shattered in 2012 when a huge fire at the refinery left 15,000 residents needing hospital treatment

Activists Claim Victory Over Davos Forum

January 25, 2015 Staff, www.worldbulletin.net Resist! Chevron, Corporatism, Davos, Economic inequality, World Economic Form

Members of the World Economic Forum have long held that their stated aim of meeting annually in Switzerland is to "improve the state of the world." But protesters say the meetings are secretly aimed at promoting the agendas of corporations and lobbies at the expense of global citizenry. And the campaigners have declared their work in bringing much of the realities of Davos to light has reached a new stage. Oliver Claassen from the Berne Declaration, a Swiss NGO, told the Anadolu Agency: "The main reason for leaving Davos is the arrival of Corporate Justice - a campaign which lobbies politicians to force corporations to respect human rights and the environment."

Indigenous Communities Take Chevron To Court For ‘Crimes Against Humanity’

October 27, 2014 Sarah Lazare, www.commondreams.org Resist! Chevron, Ecuador, Indigenous Rights, Law

Chevron's repeated refusal to clean up its toxic contamination of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest constitutes an "attack" on civilian populations and should be investigated by the International Criminal Court in the Hague, impacted indigenous and farming communities charged this week in a formal complaint (pdf) to the global body. “In the context of international criminal law, the decisions made by Chevron’s CEO, John Watson, have deliberately maintained—and contributed to—the polluted environment in which the people of the Oriente region of Ecuador live and die every day,” states the complaint, which was submitted to the ICC's Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on Thursday on behalf of approximately 80 affected communities, totaling tens of thousands of people.

Greenpeace Blocks Chevron Shale Gas Site

July 9, 2014 Revolution News, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Chevron, Environment, Fracking, Greenpeace

Around 25 Greenpeace activists blocked access to a shale gas exploration site in Romania on Monday, in a third attempt to scupper the drilling operations of US energy group Chevron. Protesters locked hands and sat in front of the entrance to a drilling position in the northeastern village of Pungesti. They prevented a lorry from entering and displayed banners reading “No to fracking“. Greenpeace activists from Romania, Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary chained themselves to the fences and asked Chevron to leave the country. The protest lasted for 15 hours, then the Police evacuated all activists, while media access was also forbidden on site. Fracking is a controversial extraction technique that consists of injecting water and chemicals deep into rock to release gas. Environmentalists warn that chemical-laced waste could contaminate fresh water resources, while the fracking itself could cause minor earthquakes.

Lockdown At The Burnaby Chevron Refinery

May 31, 2014 Derrick, www.westcoastnativenews.com Resist! Activism, Chevron, Climate Change

Early Friday morning the 30th of May 2014, three activists (Dan Wallace, Mia Nissen and Adam Gold) locked themselves to the gate of Chevron in North Burnaby to protest exploitative resource extraction in Canada. They used bicycle D-locks and chains to secure themselves to the metal posts of the gate to stop truck traffic into the Chevron North Burnaby in order to draw attention the Federal and Provincial government’s complete disregard for the earth, Indigenous sovereignty, and the reality of climate change. The activists are not associated with any organizations but are ordinary citizens that have decided that enough is enough. “We want to demonstrate the extreme measures that ordinary citizens are willing to take. We want to show that each person has the ability to act, and that we must act for the sake of ourselves and future generations. Like many others taking a stand, we feel a moral obligation.” stated one of the activists.

Chevron Shareholder Meeting Draws Protests

May 31, 2014 Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire, www.csrwire.com Resist! Chevron, Ecuador, pollution

Dozens of protesters including Ecuadorian indigenous and activists gathered outside the Permian Basin Petroleum Museum in Midland, Texas, to ask Chevron to take responsibility for the widespread contamination in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. The crowd, led by Humberto Piaguaje of the Secoya nation, and Robinson Yumbo of the Cofán nation from the affected communities, held banners and signs condemning Chevron’s refusal to remediate the pollution that its predecessor, Texaco, left in Ecuador after decades of operation in the country’s Amazon region. Texaco, which merged with Chevron in 2001, was found guilty and fined approximately $19 billion by an Ecuadorian court for polluting the rainforest. The decision was ratified by the country’s highest court but reduced the amount to $9.5 billion. The company refuses to pay and instead sued the Ecuadorian plaintiffs and their lawyers under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, which was designed to combat organized crime.

East Bay Oil Refinery Protest Draws About 100 Demonstrators

May 21, 2014 Jean Tepperman, www.eastbayexpress.com Resist! California, Chevron, Oil, Protest

Accompanied by a four-kayak flotilla and a fifth-generation Martinez resident on horseback, about one hundred environmental activists marched seven miles from Martinez to Benicia on Saturday to protest the local toxic pollution and global climate impact of Bay Area oil refineries. The march was spearheaded by a Bay Area group affiliated with Idle No More, an organization of Canadian First Nations people fighting development of the tar sands oil fields in Alberta and other environmentally destructive projects on their traditional lands. Specific targets of the protest were proposed expansion projects at the Chevron (Richmond), Valero (Benicia), and Phillips 66 (Rodeo) refineries, a crude oil transportation terminal in Pittsburg planned by energy infrastructure company WesPac, and the major investment of Shell (Martinez) in the Canadian tar sands mines. The Saturday march was the second of four planned Refinery Corridor Healing Walks — the first, from Pittsburg to Martinez, was held in April, and future walks are planned for June and July, ending up at Chevron in Richmond. The series of walks aims to “connect the dots” to “bring awareness to the refinery communities, invite community members to get to know one another, and to show support for a just transition beyond fossil fuels,” according to the group’s website. At a gathering at the Martinez Regional Shoreline before the march, a winner of this year’s Goldman environmental prize, South African Desmond D’Sa, described the high rates of leukemia, cancer, and asthma in his home town of Durban and the community’s struggles against Shell Oil there, urging the crowd to “fight them (refineries) wherever they are.” Penny Opal Plant, of the East Bay Idle No More group, said she only recently began to conceive of the refinery corridor as a total area suffering from the “immense devastation” caused by oil refineries.

Environmentalist Kicked Out Of Chevron-Sponsored Event

April 21, 2014 Katie Lentsch, www.mintpressnews.com Resist! Chevron, Environment, Protest

After organizers of a Chevron-sponsored economic development summit learned of a paying attendee’s association with an environmental watchdog, he was forcibly ejected from the event. On Wednesday, Paul Paz y Miño was standing at the back of the ballroom of the Marriott Convention Center during the Economic Development Summit for Energy and Sustainability in Oakland, Calif., when he was approached by a woman. The woman asked Paz y Miño, the online and operations director for the environmental watchdog organization Amazon Watch, about a stack of papers he had. When it was revealed that he was holding about 40 flyers regarding Chevron’s controversial environmental actions and its Richmond, Calif., community news website, Richmond Standard, three security guards arrived to physically remove Paz y Miño from the summit. Getting kicked out of the event may have surprised Paz y Miño if oil and energy giant Chevron had not been the event’s presenting sponsor.

The Injustice of Federal Judge Ruling For Chevron On Ecuador Oil Spill

March 6, 2014 Mark Karlin, www.Truth-Out.org Educate! Chevron, Ecuador, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Oil and Gas

...as Chevron dragged the case out -- stalling tactics are par for the course with oil companies, as also exemplified in the Exxon Valdez litigation -- Ecuadoreans elected a more populist president, Rafael Correa, who was sympathetic to the plight of the residents of Lago Agrio -- and less receptive to the alleged bribes and financial clout of Big Oil. Suddenly, Chevron was pleading its case in a court system that now had less of a built in bias toward US corporations. The Ecuadorean legal process had tilted unexpectedly toward justice for the impoverished with demonstrable grievances. As a result, Chevron gambled with the venue of the case and lost. In the end though, for global corporations that is not the end, it just necessitates kicking the case down the field and moving to another venue. As happens in the vast majority of such corporate manipulations of the law, it worked.

Environmentalists and Labor Unite to Protest Chevron Disaster

August 11, 2013 Barry Sheppard, www.solidarity-us.org Resist! Chevron, Energy, Environment

One year after a massive explosion and fire at the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, California, there was a demonstration of thousands directed against the oil giant on August 3. A significant aspect of the action was that it brought together environmentalists from the Bay Area and nationally, and activists from the Richmond community. From the environmentalists’ side, the demonstration was part of a wave of “Summer Heat” actions organized by 350.org. There were banners and signs reflecting local community issues with the Chevron refinery, as well as those of the national “Summer Heat” protests: “No more toxic hazards, no Keystone XL pipeline, no refining tar sands or fracked crude – yes to a just transition from fossil fuels to union jobs and clean energy!”

Chevron to Pay $2 Million for 2012 Richmond Refinery Fire

August 7, 2013 Amy Goodman, www.alternet.org Educate! Chevron, Energy

It was a year ago today when a massive fire at a Chevron refinery in Richmond, California, sent toxic smoke billowing into the air about 10 miles northeast of San Fransisco. In the aftermath, more than 15,000 people were hospitalized with respiratory problems. On Monday, Chevron pleaded no contest to six criminal charges related to the fire and agreed to submit to additional oversight over the next few years and pay $2 million in fines and restitution as part of a plea deal with state and county prosecutors.

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