News and Multimedia from 2008
Chevron Risks Lives and Its Reputation in Ecuador
23 April 2008 | San Francisco Chronicle
Chevron's PR offensive against two of this year's Goldman Environmental Prize winners shows the degree to which senior management at the San Ramon-based oil major has lost its way. More »
Rebuttal to Chevron's Deceptive Op-Ed
In Letter To O'Reilly Activists Correct Chevron's Distorted Claims About Ecuador Trial
16 April 2008
In April 2008, shortly after Pablo Fajardo and Luis Yanza, leaders of the plaintiffs' legal effort in Ecuador, were awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize, Chevron retaliated with an opinion piece in the San Francisco Chronicle. That piece slanders plaintiffs as con artists and misleads about Chevron's liability. This letter from Fajardo and Yanza sets the record straight. More »
Amazon Watch Blasts Consultant Sam Singer For Designing Chevron Attack On Goldman Prize Winners
Says Singer Helping Oil Giant Hide $16 Billion Liability from Shareholders
16 April 2008 | Amazon Watch
Amazon Watch today blasted San Francisco consultant Sam Singer for letting himself be used by Chevron to wage a personal and unsubstantiated attack on two renowned Ecuadorian environmental activists who were in town to receive the prestigious Goldman Prize this week. More »
Chevron Takes on the Plaintiffs
A pair of Ecuadorean activists go up against the corporation over a toxic pollution clean-up.
16 April 2008 | Los Angeles Times
Squaring off beneath the cream-and-gilt ceilings and behind mahogany doors were oil behemoth Chevron Corp. and a pair of Ecuadorean environmental activists. It was not, however, a fair fight. Oil giant vs. environmentalists? In San Francisco? Chevron never had a chance. More »
Chevron's Inhumane Energy
14 April 2008
Chevron dumped over 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Now it is trying to hide the disaster launching public relations campaigns about "human energy" and social responsibility. More »
La Energía Inhumana de Chevron
14 April 2008
Entre 1972 y 1992, los derrames de petróleo y las emisiones de desechos tóxicos, equivalentes a treinta veces el tamaño del desastre del derrame del Exxon Valdez contaminaron el suelo y las fuentes de agua de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana, uno de los lugares más frágiles en la tierra. More »
Chevron Has Only Itself to Blame for Historic $16 Billion Claim in Ecuador Case, Lawyers Say
Company's Bungled Legal Strategy Created Much of Scientific Proof Used Against It by Independent Court Expert
14 April 2008 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Chevron has only itself to blame for facing a judgment of up to $16 billion in a historic environmental case in Ecuador because it produced most of the evidence that is now being used against it, say representatives of the rainforest groups that brought the case. More »
Environmental Award Draws Chevron's Ire
14 April 2008 | Reuters
Chevron Corp on Monday criticized the award of a prestigious environmental prize to two leaders of a prolonged legal challenge that claims the oil company polluted the Amazon. More »
Chevron, Enviros Clash Over Goldman Award
13 April 2008 | KTVU News
An attorney representing thousands of Amazonian forest-dwellers in a class-action lawsuit against Chevron told KTVU Monday that the oil giant is engaging in a “misinformation campaign” in response to two Ecuadorian activists winning the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize. More »
Amazon Activists Win Goldman Environmental Prize
Two Ecuadoreans pursued legal action against Texaco and then Chevron over what they said was massive oil contamination.
13 April 2008 | Los Angeles Times
Two Ecuadoreans who have waged a 14-year fight to bring a U.S. energy giant to account for what they allege is massive oil contamination in the Amazon are among the winners of an international environmental prize. More »
