A new 100-page report raises alarm over #Chevron’s impact on planet

by Genevieve Belmaker, Laurel Sutherland on 28 October 2021

- An independent expert report has determined that of the 70 ongoing cases in 31 countries against Chevron, only 0.006% ($286-million) in fines, court judgements, and settlements have been paid. The company still owes another $50.5-billion in total globally.

- The largest of those payout judgements is for $9.5 billion in environmental damages representing 30,000 plaintiffs in #Ecuador where the oil damage is so severe, it’s known as the “Amazon Chernobyl”.

- #Brazil, #Argentina, and #Venezuela are amongst a number of countries in #Africa, #Asia, the #MiddleEast, #LatinAmerica and beyond where there are ongoing litigations against Chevron. In the U.S. alone, there are 13 ongoing litigations against Chevron.

- The same day the report was released, international #HumanRights lawyer #StevenDonziger, lead attorney on the #Chevron #Ecuador case, was imprisoned. His incarceration came after nearly two years of house arrest in New York City and an intense legal battle for his freedom.

#PeopleNotProfits #Pollution #ToxicWaste #EnvironmentalPollution #EnvironmentalRacism #ClimateActivists #Texaco #OilPollution

Read more:
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/a-new-100-page-report-raises-alarm-over-chevrons-impact-on-planet/

Free After 993 Days: #Environmental Lawyer #StevenDonziger on Leaving House Arrest & His Fight with #Chevron

#DemocracyNow, April 26, 2022

"We speak with human rights and environmental lawyer Steven Donziger, who was released Monday from nearly 1,000 days of house arrest as part of a years-long legal ordeal that began after he successfully sued Chevron on behalf of 30,000 Ecuadorian Amazonian Indigenous people. Donziger calls his misdemeanor sentencing and arrest 'a retaliation play by Chevron and some of its allies in the judiciary,' meant to intimidate other #HumanRights advocates and lawyers from pursuing #EnvironmentalJustice. 'Chevron tried to use me as what I would say is a weapon of mass distraction so people wouldn’t focus on the environmental crimes they commited in #Ecuador,' continues Donziger, who says, 'I didn’t really understand freedom until it was taken away.'

#PeopleNotProfits #Pollution #ToxicWaste #EnvironmentalPollution #EnvironmentalRacism #ClimateActivists #Texaco #OilPollution
Read more:
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/4/26/steven_donziger_freedom_chevron_ecuador_amazon

2021: Lawyer Who Battled #Chevron Over #Amazon #OilSpills Found Guilty of Contempt

In the protracted fight for accountability in #Ecuador’s Amazon, #StevenDonziger is a victim of #corporate retaliation, supporters say.

by Gabriela Barzallo, August 31, 2021

#Environmental lawyer Steven Donziger spent 25 years helping fight a million-dollar legal battle in the Ecuadorian Amazon against oil giant Chevron. But on July 26, a U.S. federal judge found him guilty of six counts of criminal contempt of court for withholding evidence in a long, complex legal fight.

"Having already served more than 700 days of house arrest, Donziger now awaits sentencing. He faces six months in jail as the culmination of a process he and his lawyers have called 'a charade.' Donziger was a fundamental part of the team of lawyers that sued Chevron in the early 1990s for toxic dumping in the Ecuadorian Amazon. After the case concluded in the affected communities’ favor in 2011, Chevron #countersued Donziger in the United States for alleged fraud in the Ecuadorian courts.

"'This is an outrageous decision,' Donziger said of his conviction. 'I see it as an attack on #HumanRights lawyering by the fossil fuel industry. It’s a violation for the rule of law and for our democracy."

#PeopleNotProfits #Pollution #ToxicWaste #EnvironmentalPollution #EnvironmentalRacism #ClimateActivists

Read more:
https://nacla.org/news/2021/08/25/ecuador-chevron-donziger

#StevenDonziger: The man who stood up to an oil giant, and paid the price

Rex Weyler
26 February 2020

"The link between #ecological protection and #HumanRights is evident in #Ecuador’s #Amazon basin, where massive #OilPollution has destroyed #forests and #farms and left some of the world’s poorest people with #BirthDefects and a #cancer epidemic. In 1993, Ecuador’s Frente de Defensa de la Amazonía (FDA), representing 30,000 victims of #Chevron’s toxic oil waste, asked Donziger to help them win compensation for what is likely the largest oil-related human disaster in history."

#PeopleNotProfits #Pollution #ToxicWaste #EnvironmentalPollution #EnvironmentalRacism
Read more:
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/28741/steven-donziger-chevron-oil-amazon-contamination-injustice/

When #StevenDonziger won a landmark judgment against Chevron on behalf of indigenous people whose lands and bodies had been permanently poisoned, the company struck back:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/02/free-steven-donziger/#free-donziger

#Chevron bribed a judge in Ecuador to claim that Donziger had rigged the case, then brought a case in the US against Donziger for racketeering, judge-shopping to get judge #LewisAKaplan on their case.

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Dagli Stati Uniti alla Germania, si intensifica la repressione contro gli attivisti per il clima https://altreconomia.it/dagli-stati-uniti-alla-germania-si-intensifica-la-repressione-contro-gli-attivisti-per-il-clima/ #attivistaambientalista #ManuelEstebanPaezTerán #forestapubblica #StevenDonziger #Tortuguita #Attualità #ambiente #Atlanta #Georgia #Polizia #usa

{#Greta #Thunberg Retweeted
#StevenDonziger
#SDonziger
https://twitter.com/SDonziger/status/1661687569589891073
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BREAKING: German police are staging the world's first nationwide raid on climate activists. The goal: shut down a group called "Last Generation" that engages in peaceful protest to save the planet.

Will they also arrest the fossil fuel executives?
https://t.co/W5RxXfmDmq }
#Weedmob:#Cannabis #Gerechtigkeit #Grundgesetz #lastgeneration #fff #climatecrisis #hanfhilft #hemp #nutzhanf #scholz #completelycrazy #crazy

https://twitter.com/SDonziger/status/1372621865395523585?t=iY5GvhvuHn3pRscxjyfgqQ&s=09
#StevenDonziger #Chevron #poisoningamazon #indigenouspeople

Make #ecocide an international crime and other legal ideas to help save the planet | #StevenDonziger

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/22/five-legal-ideas-fight-climate-crisis-save-planet?CMP=share_btn_tw

From #CommonDreams 😀😀😀

#StevenDonziger Walks Free After 993 Days of 'Completely Unjust' Detention

"He should have never been detained for even one day."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/25/steven-donziger-walks-free-after-993-days-completely-unjust-detention

How does one go about "#condemning"?

Dunno, but maybe its worth trying to condemn the last seven decades of #warCrimes on other cultures around the world for #commodities, #patents, and a #fiatCurrency?

What about the #whistleblowers and other #politicalPrisoners like #DanielHale, StevenDonziger and #Assange? Should we condemn the structures that drag them through #defamation, lawFare and other #torture?

Any priests? We'd value your understanding of 'condemning'.

#lawfare #StevenDonziger

Disastro Chevron in Amazzonia: l’unico a pagare è l’avvocato delle popolazioni colpite https://altreconomia.it/disastro-chevron-in-amazzonia-lunico-a-pagare-e-lavvocato-delle-popolazioni-colpite/ #Approfondimento #StevenDonziger #inquinamento #amazzonia #ambiente #petrolio #Chevron #ecuador #Slapp

We'd like to thank, #LeeCamp for again bringing to light the extreme #judicalLynching of #StevenDonziger by the #USA #injusticeSystem.

His crime was securing $10b cleanup funds for the ppl of #Ecuador who were #poisoned by #Texaco (now #Chevron), and for protecting his sources and #whistleblowers just like #Assange.

Unfortunately we can no longer in good conscience link to the podcast because we learned #soundcloud is an #Amazon asset.

#rt #rtDotCom #redactedTonight

> "We have a lot to offer the world, like our #economics…"

Yes, it was surely economical for #Texaco (now #Chevron) to covertly dump #cancer causing substances into waterways, #poisoning the #nativePeople of #Ecuador.

The same #corporation that is now linked to perverting the #judicalSystem in the #USA in the #persecution of the #HumanRights lawyer, #StevenDonziger, who successfully won the $10b case.

#Economical #CorporateTotalitarianism #plunder #Afghanistan #getOut #micimatt

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"The impact on local communities has been devastating, destroying livelihoods and causing a spike in #cancer and #birthDefects. Lead US attorney for the indigenous plaintiffs #StevenDonziger joins host of #RenegadeInc #RossAshcroft.

Prepare to be shocked by how processed are abused to protect #BigOil.