QUITO, Ecuador - In a resounding defeat for Chevron in a landmark pollution case, Ecuador’s Constitutional Court in a unanimous 8-0 decision rejected the oil major’s final appeal of a $9.5 billion pollution judgment that found the company deliberately dumped billions of gallons of toxic oil waste onto Indigenous lands in the Amazon rainforest.
Read MoreNEW YORK - After years of litigation over its massive pollution problem in Ecuador, Chevron has now orchestrated the suspension of human rights lawyer Steven R. Donziger without a hearing on the grounds that he represents “a threat to the public order” in the United States after he led the successful legal battle that resulted in a landmark $12b environmental judgment against the company.
Read MoreSAN RAMON, CA - Several Chevron shareholders and environmental activists pressed hard against Chevron CEO Mike Wirth today at the company’s annual meeting, with one accusing the company of “killing off Indigenous peoples” via neglect by failing to pay a $12 billion environmental judgment owed to rainforest communities in Ecuador’s Amazon.
Read MoreNEW YORK, NY - Avaaz, the world’s largest online activist political network, has targeted Chevron with a “Justice for Amazon Chernobyl” campaign designed to force company CEO Mike Wirth to pay the $12 billion Ecuador pollution liability that has caused a wave of cancer and continues to decimate Indigenous groups in Ecuador’s rainforest.
Read MoreSAN RAMON, CA - With pressure mounting from shareholders and the world’s leading on-line activist group over a $12b Ecuador pollution disaster, Chevron’s management team is trying to erect a “fortress of lies and deceit” in advance of the company’s annual meeting Wednesday to distract from a failed litigation strategy that poses major financial risk to company shareholders, according to an interview with Steven Donziger, a leading American human rights lawyer.
Read MoreNEW YORK - Greenpeace co-founder and writer Rex Weyler has published an expose of a SLAPP-style intimidation campaign orchestrated by Chevron and U.S. trial judge Lewis A. Kaplan against Indigenous peoples of Ecuador and an American lawyer, who helped win a $12 billion judgment against the company for oil pollution in the Amazon rainforest.
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NEW YORK - A prominent Canadian Indigenous leader and lawyer, Grand Chief Wilton Littlechild, has issued a blistering critique of Chevron in a United Nations speech for poisoning ancestral lands in the Amazon rainforest and engaging in “countless violations” of Indigenous peoples’ rights related to the dumping of billions of gallons of oil waste in Ecuador.
Read MoreNEW YORK - A controversial U.S. trial-level judge ignored undisputed evidence that Chevron paid at least $2 million for false witness testimony and fabricated other evidence to obtain a discredited civil “racketeering” (or RICO) decision that company lawyers are now trying to use in Canada to block enforcement of the $12 billion pollution judgment from Ecuador, according to a report Chevron’s RICO Fraud.
Read MoreNEW YORK - A U.S. federal trial judge, apparently reacting to Canadian appellate judges who seem willing to allow Ecuadorian villagers the chance to seize Chevron assets to comply with their $12b pollution judgment, has just issued a second extraordinary “global injunction” from his Manhattan courtroom purporting to bar collection of the Ecuador judgment anywhere in the world – including in Canada, where the villagers have won three consecutive appellate court victories.
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TORONTO - Chevron faced a series of tough questions from a three-judge appellate panel this week in Ontario over its continued attempt to evade paying a $12 billion environmental liability owed to Indigenous peoples and farmer communities in Ecuador’s Amazon region following the dumping of billions of gallons of toxic oil waste onto ancestral lands.
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