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Key Documents & Court Filings from Aguinda Legal Team
On February 14th, a court in Lago Agrio, Ecuador ruled in favor of the residents of the Amazonian rainforest who have spent the last 18 years trying to force Chevron executives to clean up their deadly mess. Here are some essential documents for understanding this decision and the current status of the case. More »
Press Kit on the Lago Agrio Ruling and Chevron's Retaliatory Attacks
On February 14th, a court in Lago Agrio, Ecuador ruled in favor of the residents of the Amazonian rainforest who have spent the last 18 years trying to force Chevron executives to clean up their deadly mess. This press kit contains essential documents for understanding this decision and the current status of the case. More »
Press Kit for Texaco's Sham Remediation of Contamination at Well Sites
In 1995, two years after the Ecuadorian plaintiffs filed their original lawsuit in the United States, Chevron entered into a remediation agreement with the Government of Ecuador. The documents and testimony included in this press kit show that this agreement is in fact no defense. More »
PRESS RELEASES
Chevron Faces "Irreparable Damage" Because of $18 Billion Ecuador Judgment, Says New Financial Analysis
14 May 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition
New York, NY – A new financial analysis has found that Chevron's $18 billion Ecuador environmental liability poses a threat of "irreparable damage" to the oil major's global operations if the plaintiffs make good on their promise to launch legal actions to enforce the judgment in countries where Chevron has billions of dollars in assets. More »
Shareholders Slam Chevron With Request for SEC Investigation Over Ecuador Judgment
14 May 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition
New York, NY – Chevron now faces another headache over its $18 billion Ecuador judgments – this time from some of its own investors. More »
Chevron Suffers Major Legal Setback as U.S. Court Throws Out Fraud Claims, Rejects Motion to Attach Assets
14 May 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition
New York, NY – Chevron suffered two new legal setbacks today when a U.S. federal judge who usually favors the company rejected its attempt to attach the assets of the Ecuadorians and separately tossed out two fraud-related claims against an American lawyer. More »
NEWS
Chevron Loses Some RICO Claims Against Ecuadoreans
21 May 2012 | Courthouse News Service
New York, NY – Chevron met with unusual resistance as a federal judge narrowed its lawsuit against a group of Ecuadoreans fighting to collect $18 billion for an oil contamination. More »
Is Chevron in Violation of Securities Law?
New reports on Chevron's liabilities relating to environmental damages in Ecuador assert that while the company's legal options have narrowed significantly, its public filings repeat the same arguments made in 2008. First of a two-part series.
18 May 2012 | SocialFunds.com
The legal decisions continue to fall against Chevron, as the $18 billion judgment against it for environmental degradation in Ecuador has been upheld in appeals courts. More »
Court Considers Chevron's Request for Documents in Ecuador Litigation
17 April 2012 | Greenwire
A federal appeals court today seemed inclined to rule that a lower court judge acted too hastily in allowing Chevron Corp. access to documents prepared by a consulting firm working for Ecuadorean plaintiffs in a high-profile case that has dragged on for almost 20 years. More »
DOCUMENTS
Chevron's Misrepresentations in Public Filings Regarding its $18.1 Billion Environmental Liability in Ecuador
April 2012
This memo presents evidence and analysis that Chevron's management is publishing false or materially misleading information regarding its $18.1 billion adverse judgment in Ecuador for causing environmental damage. More »
Clean Up Ecuador Campaign Briefing Paper
Understanding Recent Developments in the Landmark Chevron-Ecuador Case
Spring 2012 | Amazon Watch
After 19 years of litigation, the monumental class action lawsuit against oil giant Chevron for environmental devastation in the Ecuadorian Amazon is nearing an end. On January 3, 2012, an Ecuadorian appeals court confirmed an $18 billion judgment against Chevron. This judgment is exceeded in size only by BP's expected outlay for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The judgment is internationally binding, and it sends the message that corporations cannot evade justice for their crimes around the world. It sets major precedents, not only for Ecuador's indigenous people and farmer communities, but also for international human rights, environmental law and corporate accountability. More »
Chevron Ecuador Risk Analysis Report
An Analysis of the Financial and Operational Risks to Chevron Corporation from Aguinda v. ChevronTexaco
May 2011 | An independent report commissioned by Amazon Watch & Rainforest Action Network
Drawing on the unusually rich and revealing publicly available legal filings in this case, this report examines the potential damage and disruption to Chevron's operations from enforcement of the $18 billion Ecuador court judgment that was delivered on February 14, 2011. This report also assesses the risk that Chevron's aggressive counter-litigation and public relations campaign against the Ecuadorian plaintiffs' will backfire and prove to be a long-term barrier to the company's obtaining the legal right and social license to explore and operate in new regions. More »
PHOTOS
Victims of Chevron's Contamination React to Being Sued by Company
7 February 2011
Victims of Chevron's contamination from the region around oil boom-town Coca learn the news that the oil giant is suing them, accusing them of racketeering and extortion for their efforts to hold the company accountable for its abuses. More »
Chevron AGM 2010 Action
25 May 2010
A powerful coalition of leaders from communities around the world negatively impacted by Chevron's operations are gathered in Houston to confront the oil giant during its annual shareholders meeting. Guillermo Grefa and Mariana Jimenez, two people from Ecuador's Amazon rainforest region, are among those speaking out about the "True Cost of Chevron." More »
Crude Reflections
View photos by San Francisco Bay Area photographers Lou Dematteis and Kayana Szymczak, who traveled to Ecuador to document the physical and emotional reality of those affected by pollution and their struggle for justice. More »
AUDIO
Free Speech Radio News previews CRUDE
9 September 2009 | Free Speech Radio News
FSRN spoke with Mitch Anderson, the lead campaigner for Amazon Watch's Ecuador project. More »
KQED's Forum Discussion of "The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report"
28 May 2009 | KQED Forum
We talk with Antonia Juhasz, policy analyst, author of "The Tyranny of Oil" and lead author and editor of "The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report" and look at the latest news and geopolitical issues surrounding the company. More »
Uprising Radio Interview on Chevron Shareholder Meeting
26 May 2008 | Uprising Radio
Ahead of its annual shareholder meeting tomorrow, the Chevron Corporation is facing increasing scrutiny for its business practices around the world from California to Ecuador. More »
VIDEO
Chevron en la Amazonía
El Chernobyl de Sudamérica
3 May 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Ya es hora de que Chevron limpie su contaminación masiva que ha devastado al medio ambiente de la Amazonía Ecuadoriana y sigue provocando casos de cancer, defectos de nacimiento, y otras enfermedades. More »
The True Story of Chevron's Ecuador Disaster
8 February 2012 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Over almost three decades of oil drilling in Ecuador's Amazon, Chevron dumped billions of gallons of toxic waste into waterways relied on by local inhabitants for their drinking water. More »
The Amazon's Toxic Mess
Zoë Tryon highlights the plight of Ecuadorian natives after decades of oil drilling
9 October 2011 | Sunday Night Show
Zoë Tryon highlights the plight of Ecuadorian natives after decades of oil drilling in this powerful investigation by Mike Munro. More »
