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- Chevron has argued that Texaco spent $40m ($31m) cleaning up the area during the 1990s, and signed an agreement with Ecuador in 1998 absolving it of any further responsibility.
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Chevron has argued that Texaco spent $40m ($31m) cleaning up the area during the 1990s, and signed an agreement with Ecuador in 1998 absolving it of any further responsibility.
- Legal Battle Far From Over
Chevron says Texaco spent $40m (£24.5m) in clean-up work...
- Us Judge Annuls Ecuador Oil Ruling Against Chevron
Ecuador's highest court last year upheld the verdict against...
- Legal Battle Far From Over
Feb 4, 2021 · The company was freed from paying billions in compensation charges for one of the biggest and most devastating oil spills in history, which Texaco committed and admitted. Texaco was later bought by Chevron.
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Texaco was later acquired by Chevron. Chevron has argued that Texaco spent $40m ($31m) cleaning up the area during the 1990s, and signed an agreement with Ecuador in 1998 absolving it of any ...
The trial court record contains substantial evidence that Chevron never developed a plan to contain or clean up its frequent oil spills. Evidence showed that Chevron never conducted even basic maintenance on its extensive network of pipelines.
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- How Did They Win?
- History of Racism Towards The Ecuadorians
- What’s Next Is Up to Our Movement
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Despite the incredible odds against them, Indigenous and farmer communities won the largest-ever award for environmental damages against an oil company after eighteen years of legal battles. Based mostly on Chevron’s own scientific samples and over 200,000 pages of evidence, a judge in Ecuador ruled that Chevron must pay $9.5 billion for environmen...
The U.S. media behaves as if this case is over. The reason is very American, it’s racism. The U.S. judicial system is also eager to deny access to justice to people harmed in other countries by the deliberate acts of a U.S. corporation. When the Ecuadorians tried to sue in New York, U.S. federal judges denied them access to justice and after an eig...
Guellermo’s dream has not been realized, and there’s no such thing as a “climate justice” movement if Chevron is allowed to evade paying this judgment. Honoring the victims and joining the fight begins by making this case front and center in the climate movement. Chevron is a criminal on the run and we must treat it like one. Ten years is already t...
To further expose the imbalance, racism, and lack of justice just consider that in the last three thousand six hundred and fifty days: Meanwhile, these are the people who have since benefitted from delayed justice:
Dec 18, 2022 · The $9.5 billion award he helped secure from an Ecuadorian court covered horrific pollution from oil production by Texaco (acquired by Chevron in 2001) that poisoned the rainforest with oil...
Jan 1, 2009 · In the courtroom, Chevron’s main line of defense has not been much better: An agreement with the government of Ecuador released Texaco from liability. Texaco cleaned up the contamination.
