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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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