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The Sacramento Bee - 'American Honor at Stake' in Ecuador Oil Spills: You Break It, You Fix It U.S. oil giant Chevron needs to do in Ecuador what BP is doing in the U.S. Gulf Coast region – clean up its environmental mess, the conservative-oriented organization "You Break It, You Fix It" today demanded.
BBC - Chevron Nigeria gas well fire 'may burn for months' A gas-fuelled fire, with flames as high as 5m, may burn for months in waters off the Niger Delta in south-east Nigeria, Chevron has told the BBC. Two workers died after January's explosion at the KS Endeavour exploration rig, owned by the US firm.
Reuters - Ecuador court rejects Chevron arbitration ruling "A simple arbitral award ... cannot force judges to infringe the human rights of our citizens," said the court, adding that abiding by the panel's order would be unconstitutional and would lead to the breach of international human rights conventions.
Understory - We Brought A Kangaroo To Chevron’s Kangaroo Court Chevron’s kangaroo court is meeting this weekend in a rented room in Washington, DC. We thought they might need an actual kangaroo for the meeting, so we brought one. It wasn’t a real kangaroo, it was an activist in a kangaroo costume. But that’s okay, this isn’t a real court of justice, either.
The Washington Post - Dead fish, health problems emerge as Chevron rig off Nigeria continues to burn after accident The burning inferno of what used to be a Chevron Corp. natural gas rig still stains the night’s sky orange more than two weeks after the rig caught fire, and no one can say when it will end as swarms of dead fish surface.
Guardian - Chevron accused of racism as it fights Ecuador pollution ruling "Chevron does not want to ever recognise that indigenous or poor people have the right to access justice."
The New Yorker - Why Chevron Will Settle In Ecuador Late yesterday, this ongoing saga took a dramatic and possibly decisive turn, when an appeals court in Lago Agrio, Ecuador, upheld an $18 billion fine against Chevron—the largest judgment ever awarded in an environmental lawsuit.
Understory - BREAKING Appeals Court In Ecuador Upholds Verdict Against Chevron An appeals court in Ecuador has just upheld the $18 billion decision against Chevron for its massive oil pollution in the Amazon, Reuters reports.
CSRwire - Chevron Used Secret Lab to Hide Dirty Soil Samples from Ecuador Court, Say Company Documents In an ever more stunning expose of Chevron's fraud before the Ecuador court, a U.S. federal judge has ordered the disclosure of documents that demonstrate Chevron used a secret lab in the United States to hide the existence of dirty soil samples taken from the company's contaminated former well sites in the Amazon.
Huffington Post - Crude Politics: Is Chevron Involved in a Billion Dollar Bait-and-Switch in Ecuador? "With Chevron running out of legal options in its attempt to avoid its $18 billion liability in Ecuador over egregious environmental crimes and rights abuses, the company may have turned to its longtime government insider Ivonne Baki to help it out of a multibillion dollar jam, taking corporate malfeasance and greenwashing to a whole new level."