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Chevron Faces Fraud Charges In Ecuador Over Toxic Dumping In Amazon Rainforest
Embattled Chevron Executive Forced To Appear In Quito To Explain Company’s Flawed Remediation
7 August 2006 | Amazon Watch
Embattled Chevron executive Ricardo Reis Veiga is to appear in Quito this week to defend the company against fraud charges filed by Ecuador's top law enforcement agency as Chevron faces a widening circle of criminal and civil investigations in two countries over its environmental remediation in the Amazon rainforest. More »
Chevron CEO O'Reilly Blasted By Amazon Residents and Scientists Over Ecuador Disaster
Amazon Watch Seeks Independent Board Review of Handling Of $6 Billion Litigation
26 April 2006 | Amazon Watch
Two rainforest leaders sparked a dramatic showdown with Chevron CEO David O'Reilly today over the oil major's devastating $6 billion toxic contamination of their ancestral lands in Ecuador's Amazon region. More »
With Enron As Backdrop, Chevron Faces Mounting Corporate Governance Problems Of Its Own
SEC Complaint, Fraud Probe Over Ecuador Oil Disaster Raise Stakes as Concerned Shareholders Converge in Houston
Rainforest Indigenous Leader To Confront CEO David O’Reilly
25 April 2006 | Amazon Watch
Chevron CEO David O'Reilly and the company's top management have come to Enron's hometown for the annual shareholder's meeting only to face a rising tide of corporate governance problems over their handling of a potential multi-billion liability for oil contamination in Ecuador's rainforest. More »
Chevron Hires "Hit Man" Anthropologist To Rewrite Indigenous History In Amazon
Shoddy Scholarship Infects Report Submitted To Court To Hide Possible Genocide Committed By Chevron Against Cofan
24 April 2006 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Chevron's "hired gun" anthropologist, Dr. Eduardo Bedoya, has attempted to rewrite the indigenous history of the Cofan without interviewing a single member of the Cofan people, who are struggling to survive due to Chevron's extensive oil contamination in Ecuador's Amazon region. More »
Chevron's Waste Management "Illegal", Experts Conclude
14 April 2006 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Chevron's dumping of massive amounts of toxic waste in the Ecuadorian Amazon was a deliberate flouting of Ecuadorian law and best industry practice that knowingly threatened the health of local residents, an expert report has concluded. More »
Chevron's "Attack and Distract" Campaign Hits New Low
Cornered By Evidence of Catastrophe, Company Attacks Lawyers And Experts For Affected Communities
14 April 2006 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Cornered by growing corporate governance problems and evidence that it is guilty of a massive oil contamination of the Amazon rainforest, lawyers for Chevron have invented a new round of bogus allegations as part of its ongoing "attack and distract" campaign designed to divert attention from the scientific results in a historic multi-billion dollar environmental trial. More »
Chevron's Sampling Deliberately Underestimates Contamination, Report Warns
13 April 2006 | Amazon Defense Coalition
An expert report submitted to the Ecuadorian court in Chevron's landmark environmental trial alleges that the oil major's sampling and analysis methods are deliberately designed to avoid contamination. More »
March 2006 Summary of Evidence from Judicial Inspections
Latest Scientific Results Show Overwhelming Contamination in Former Texaco Concessions
17 March 2006
Scientific analyses of hundreds of water and oil samples taken from former Texaco concessions in the Ecuadorian Amazon now paint a detailed picture of the devastating toxic contamination left by the oil giant. The results are pivotal to the landmark class-action lawsuit brought in Ecuador by 30,000 rainforest dwellers against Chevron (formerly ChevronTexaco). More »
Cornered By Evidence, Chevron Resorts To Increasingly Desperate Measures In Ecuador
Chevron Lawyers Harass Independent Laboratory To Hide Their Own Illegal Sampling Analyses
22 March 2006 | Amazon Defense Coalition
Chevron is resorting to increasingly desperate measures to cover its tracks in the landmark environmental trial in Ecuador in which the oil giant faces a $6 billion clean-up tab. More »
Judge Expected to Rule on Validity of Chevron's Scientific Results After Lab Snafu
Chevron's U.S. Laboratory Operated Without Official Permit From Ecuadorian Government
15 March 2006 | Amazon Defense Coalition
The laboratory used by Chevron to analyze scientific evidence in a landmark environmental trial in Ecuador operated without official permits from the Ecuadorian authorities, potentially leading to another major setback for the oil giant in the closely watched legal case. More »