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- Chevron was found guilty in the court of its choosing and based largely on its own evidence for having deliberately discharged over 16 billion gallons of cancer-causing toxic waste into the northern Ecuadorian Amazon, leaving almost 1,000 pools of waste adding up to an area the size of the island of Manhattan.
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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.
- 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 14, 2024 · In the 13 years since the judgment, Chevron made over $200 billion in profit from its continued destruction of our global climate – 21 times the amount it owes. Yet it famously said it would never pay to clean up Ecuador and would “fight until hell freezes over, and then fight it out on the ice.”
- How Did They Win?
- History of Racism Towards The Ecuadorians
- What’s Next Is Up to Our Movement
- Post Script
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:
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.
Feb 4, 2021 · TOXIC COVER-UP: Chevron left 1,000 open-air waste pits in Ecuador (left). After we sued, Chevron tried to hide them with dirt only to see the oil bubble to the surface months later (right). Families built homes on these dirt mounds because Chevron said they were safe.
- Ben Heubl
May 25, 2021 · After losing in Ecuador in 2011, Chevron waged a legal scorched earth campaign back in the U.S. to nullify the Ecuadorian judgment and deny the people access to 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...
