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Ecuador’s Constitutional Court Rules Against Chevron, In Favor Of Indigenous Communities

July 12, 2018 Staff, Telesurtv.net Resist! Chevron, Courts, Ecuador, Indigenous Peoples

Ecuador’s Constitutional Court rejected Chevron’s request to revise a national court ruling that sentenced it to pay US$9.5 billion in environmental and social reparations to the communities affected during its operations in the Ecuadorean Amazon, between 1964 and 1992. “Historic day. After over 25 years, the Constitutional Court ruled in favor of those affected by Texaco. Congratulations to our sisters and brothers at @Chevron_Toxico. Without a doubt you are an example of dignity and perseverance. Let’s go for more! #TexacoGuilty,” the Center for Economic and Social Rights tweeted Tuesday night. In the resolution published Tuesday, the court justified its decision arguing “there is no violation of constitutional rights.” Chevron responded saying the court’s ruling is “consistent with the pattern of denial of justice, fraud, and corruption against the firm in Ecuador.”

Chevron Case – New Hearing In Canada

April 19, 2018 Staff, Texacotoxico.net Resist! Canada, Chevron, Courts, Oil

On the 17th and 18th of April it will take place a new hearing which will face the Ecuadorian people against the oil company Chevron in Canada. Guillermo Grefa, member of the Kichwa indigenous community of Rumipamba (Orellana) and Jaime Vargas, president of the CONAIE (Ecuadorian Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities) will participate on behalf of the 30.000 affected people, organized in the Union of People Affected by Texaco (UDAPT). They will be supported by the lawyer Julio Prieto. The Court of Appelas of Ontario will be the setting in which the Ecuadorian plaintiffs, through the lawyer Alan Leczner, will demonstrate that Chevron Canada is wholly owned by Chevron Corporation, which would allow the indigenous and peasant people of Ecuador to enforce the judgement of more than 9.5 billion dollars, issued by the Courts of Justice in Ecuador.

Big Oil’s Bi-Partisan Helpers: A Refiner’s Fire 5 Years Later

August 7, 2017 Steve Early, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Chevron, Congress, Oil

By Steve Early for Counter Punch - Five years ago, my wife and I moved to Richmond, CA and soon learned about the local emergency response protocol known as “shelter in place.” When large fires break out in Bay Area refineries, like the century old Chevron facility near our house, first a siren sounds. Then public officials direct everyone nearby to take cover inside. Doors must be closed, windows taped shut, if possible, and air conditioning turned off. August 6th is the fifth anniversary of such self-help efforts in Richmond. On that day in 2012, we looked up and saw an eruption worthy of Mount Vesuvius. Due to pipe corrosion and lax maintenance practices, a Chevron processing unit sprang a leak. The escaping petroleum vapor reached an ignition source. This led to a raging fire that Contra Costa County (home to four refineries) classified as a “Level 3 incident,” posing the highest level of danger. Nineteen oil workers narrowly escaped death at the scene of the accident. It sent a towering plume of toxic smoke over much of the East Bay and fifteen thousand refinery neighbors in search of medical attention for respiratory complaints, While local property values took a hit, Chevron stayed on track to make $25 billion in profits that year.

Exxon & Chevron Face Shareholder Challenges On Climate Change

May 31, 2017 Staff, www.prnewswire.com Resist! Chevron, Climate Change, Exxon, New Economy

By Staff of PR Newswire - DALLAS, May 30, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- ExxonMobil and Chevron will host simultaneous annual meetings on Wednesday, May 31 in Dallas and Midland, TX respectively, and face shareholders who want the oil giants to start dealing with the realities of life in a carbon-constrained world. At Chevron (proposal #8), a first-time resolution filed jointly by Arjuna Capital and As You Sow, with co-filer Baldwin Brothers Inc., asks for a detailed report assessing how the company can respond to climate change and the resultant transition to a low-carbon economy. The proposal asks Chevron to evaluate the feasibility of altering the company's energy mix, separating or selling its highest carbon-risk assets, divisions, and subsidiaries, and/or buying or merging with companies with outstanding assets or technologies in low carbon or renewable energy.

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.

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