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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.
- Ben Heubl
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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Almost 3,000 miles away, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Emergildo Criollo speeds up the Aguarico River in a long motorized canoe. The Indigenous Cofán are known as water people, and the canoe is their signature vessel. Criollo maneuvers the canoe in an eddy and hops out barefoot, walking about 100 yards through a forested area to his two-room wooden aqu...
Before his strategy session with Substack on Zoom, Donziger paces around his apartment, sipping from a giant plastic cup of iced tea. He is scheduled to check in at a halfway house in the Bronx at 2 p.m., but he’s spent the past hour talking on his cellphone with one of his assistants, dictating tweets to his 196,000 Twitter followers about the out...
The son of a businessman and a schoolteacher, Donzgier grew up in a well-to-do suburb of Jacksonville, Florida. Early on, his mother nurtured a sense of social responsibility in her son, taking him to his first rally, at a Winn-Dixie grocery store on behalf of farmworkers. His parents divorced when he was 15, and Donziger became particularly close ...
Silvia Yanez spent the first years of her young marriage traveling 17 hours by foot and bus every eight days from the Ecuadorian town of Coca to Quito to receive treatment for Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She, too, became one of the 30,000 individuals Donziger represented in the litigation against Texaco and Chevron. Dressed in black and pink yoga pants...
About a two-hour drive northwest from Yanez’s house, in a small village called San Pablo de Kantesiya, Simon Lusitande, 70, ambles down a wooden staircase outside his home wearing the traditional clothing of the Siekopai peoples and navy blue crocs. He lowers his lean body onto a small red plastic chair beneath a corrugated tin roof. Lusitande was ...
When the day of Donziger’s “Freedom Block Party” finally arrives in late April, a crowd of about 100 gathers outside his apartment building to celebrate “Steven Donziger’s Release After 993 Days of Illegal Detention,” as the event was described on social media. Wearing a blue button-down oxford shirt that is half tucked in, a black blazer and jeans...
On a backstreet in the town of Sushifindi in Sucumbíos Province, Pablo Fajardo sits in his ground-floor law office typing out arguments on his laptop. Behind him hangs a framed photograph of an Indigenous man standing before a large banner on which the words “Justicia” and “Chevron” are visible. As a young man, Fajardo was part of the legal team th...
Late one afternoon last month, Donziger dropped in virtually on a “Justice for Lawyers” seminar at Harvard Law School taught by Professor Charles Nesson, a member of the legal team that represented Donziger in his New York disbarment proceedings. Thirty years earlier, Donziger sat in a similar classroom. On this night, appearing via Zoom, he says t...
May 25, 2021 · Texaco deliberately dumped the oil waste in the Amazon and admitted to doing it as a cost-saving measure. Working within a legal system that had already failed to hold Chevron criminally liable, the Ecuadorians launched a class action suit in New York, only to be rejected after eight years of legal battles and sent back to Ecuador to start the ...
Jun 23, 2023 · Chevron-Texaco oil extraction and legal case, Ecuador. Over 60 billion liters of toxic waste and 650,000 barrels of oil spilled in the Amazon forest; the company facing international trial and EJOs advocating for "Leave Oil in the Soil" and for abandoning extractivism.
Feb 11, 2021 · 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 environmental remediation and to alleviate the health crisis it created.
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An international tribunal in The Hague has ruled in favour of the US oil company, Chevron, in an environmental dispute with the government of Ecuador. Chevron had been ordered to pay $9.5bn...
