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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
Chevron had been found guilty in Ecuador of causing...
- 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.
- Ben Heubl
- In Ecuador, Plaintiffs with ‘Nothing’
- To A Bronx Halfway House
- Rebel at Harvard Law
- A Sacrifice Zone
- ‘Buen Vivir’
- ‘Free Donziger’
- A Sort of Detente
- Harvard Law Redux
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...
Sep 20, 2011 · Texaco, which merged with Chevron in 2001, was accused of dumping toxic materials in the Ecuadorean Amazon. In February, an Ecuadorean court ruled that Chevron should pay to clean up pollution,...
Oct 10, 2020 · For decades, Texaco, and then Chevron have blamed PetroEcuador, the state-owned Ecuadorian oil company, for the pollution that remains in the Ecuadorian rainforest. They claim that Texaco cleaned up its fair share—37.5 percent, commensurate with its profit share in the oil drilling consortium.
Chevron has admitted that Texaco dumped over 18.5 billion gallons of toxic water into the rainforest during this period – about 4 million gallons daily at the height of its operation – contaminating two million acres of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
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Texaco did undertake an environmental remediation, carried out between 1995 and 1998, but it was a complete fraud, counting on the complicity of the then local authorities. This did great damage to the biodiversity of the Amazon region and to the well-being of the people who live there.
