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

2020: #Chevron is refusing to pay for the '#Amazon #Chernobyl' – we can fight back with citizen action

The lawyer challenging the oil company’s #ToxicWaste dump in #Ecuador is under house arrest. We need a boycott

by Alec Baldwin and Paul Paz y Miño

"In 2001, #Chevron acquired #Texaco, including all of its assets and civil liabilities. One of those liabilities was the “Amazon Chernobyl”, a 1,700-square-mile #EnvironmentalDisaster in Ecuador that Texaco created through a disregard – and an attitude that local #Indigenous groups have called racism – for the health of the region’s peoples. Texaco, the sole operator of the fields from 1964 to 1992, eventually admitted that it deliberately discharged 72bn litres of #toxic water into the environment, which ended up in the #water supply, and gouged 1,000 unlined waste pits out of the jungle floor. According to several Indigenous witnesses, including Humberto Piaguaje, a leader of the Ecuadorean #Secoya people, the company actually claimed that the oil wastes were medicinal and 'full of vitamins'.

"Studies have shown thousands of excess cases of cancer deaths and other health problems in the region.

"Chevron insists that Texaco is only responsible for a portion of the damage, has 'already cleaned up its share' and attributes any remaining pollution to Ecuador’s state-owned national oil company. The government of Ecuador has been clear, in turn, that Chevron is liable for all of the damage."

#PeopleNotProfits #Pollution #ToxicWaste #EnvironmentalPollution #EnvironmentalRacism #OilPollution

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/17/chevron-amazon-oil-toxic-waste-dump-ecuador-boycott

#INTERNATIONAL_TECH_NEWS

Memory Lane | The #World Just Took a #Major_Step To Curb #Plastic_Pollution | But the #USA_Refused to Join Effort | Nearly every country in the world #except the #United_States took a historic step to curb plastic waste last week, May 16, 2019 when more than 180 nations agreed to add plastic to the #Basel_Convention, a #treaty that #regulates the movement of #hazardous_materials between countries.

Despite this, the United States will still be affected by the agreement, because #countries will be able to #block the #dumping of mixed or #un_recyclable_plastic wastes from other nations. The amended treaty will make it much more difficult for #wealthy_countries to send their plastic #waste to #poorer_nations by #prohibiting countries from #exporting plastic waste that is not ready for recycling.

#Recycling_MYTH: Less than 10% of all wasted plastics in the world are actually being recycled.

Most people don't realize that Plastics are made from #Fossil_Fuels (eg. Natural gas petroleum products).

#Texaco, #Chevron_Mobile

Resin Manufacturers: #Dow, #Dupont, #3M

https://youtu.be/GDWqGs7r5qs

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#INTERNATIONAL_TECH_NEWS

#HAWAII: "Imagine my surprise when every time you take a Swim in the #Ocean your swimming with #GARBAGE!?"

Our Next Big Global Crisis | #Plastic_Pollution | #Single_Use_Plastics |

18 Billion Pounds of #Plastic_waste flows into our #Oceans every year according to #National_Geopgraphic.

Some estimate that by 2050 there will be as much plastic in the Ocean as there are #Fish_in_the_Sea!?

#Recycling_MYTH: Less than 10% of all wasted plastics in the world are actually being recycled.

"Fish ingest plastics and we eat fish. We have no idea that effect will take on the human body.. long term effects might lead to more #Cancer.. we just dont know.."

Most people don't realize that Plastics are made from #Fossil_Fuels (eg. Natural gas petroleum products | #Fracking??!!).

#BOYCOTT!

* #Texaco,
* #Chevron_Mobile

#Resin_Manufacturers:

* #Dow,
* #Dupont,
* #3M

https://youtu.be/heG8iEEwrqM

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#INTERNATIONAL_TECH_NEWS | United States will still be affected by the agreement, because #countries will be able to #block the #dumping of mixed or #un_recyclable_plastic wastes from other nations.

#Texaco, #Chevron_Mobile

Resin Manufacturers: #Dow, #Dupont, #3M

#Recycling_MYTH: Less than 10% of all wasted plastics in the world are actually being recycled.

https://youtu.be/GDWqGs7r5qs

#BIG_GREEN_ENERGY | The #World Just Took a #Major_Step To Curb #Plastic_Pollution | But the #USA_Refused to Join Effort | Nearly every country in the world #except the #United_States took a historic step to curb plastic waste last week, May 16, 2019 when more than 180 nations agreed to add plastic to the #Basel_Convention, a #treaty that #regulates the movement of #hazardous_materials between countries.

#Texaco, #Chevron_Mobile
Resin Manufacturers: #Dow, #Dupont, #3M

https://youtu.be/GDWqGs7r5qs

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

"The disaster has been dubbed the #AmazonChernobyl.

"Between 1964 and 1992, the oil company #Texaco, later acquired by #Chevron in 2001, was allegedly responsible for the dumping of over 30bn gallons of toxic waste and crude oil into the #AmazonRainforest in #Ecuador.

https://www.rt.com/shows/renegade-inc/516700-amazon-chernobyl-oil-rainforest/

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@schestowitz .. #Motorola #Nationwide Insurance #PNC bank #Sony #StateFarm #Texaco #TimeWarner

#CEI, a #climateDenial lobby, tries to hide their donors. But some have been exposed: #CocaCola, #Ford, #PhilipMorris, #Pfizer, & #Texaco. #Boycott them. https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Competitive_Enterprise_Institute#Other_Funding_Sources

Dear activists: now is the best time to #boycott bad companies. Small business are getting killed. Don't buy from #Amazon. Boycott #ALEC members: #AmEx #Chevron #Farmers #FedEx #Geico #LMG #Marlboro #Motorola #Nationwide #PNC #Sony #StateFarm #Texaco #TimeWarner - favor their competitors & especially small businesses.

@jeroenpraat
All #oil companies are detrimental inherently. Monbiot faults #Shell for underspending on green initiatives, but that's a common theme & there are worse players (#Exxon, #Chevron, #Texaco).

Ppl who insist on buying fuel amid #ClimateCrisis need to at least know which ones are the worst and avoid them:

https://www.earthsfriends.com/environmental-gas-station/

Shell is lousy but it's probably somewhere in the middle.

Dear #xmas shoppers,

To be part of the #ClimateChange solution, plz:

* avoid #Amazon, who was caught funding #climatedenial using #darkmoney.
* avoid /new/ goods unless it's food. Buy /used/ goods or buy services.
* avoid products or services of #ALEC members (e.g. AT&T, #Marlboro, #Motorola, #Sony, #TimeWarner) b/c ALEC funds climate denial.
* if the gift is for a car driver, buy them a gas g/c NOT from #Chevron, #Texaco, or #Exxon (to mitigate recipients who would buy from the worst)

@acesabe
who to #boycott amid #climatechange:

#Amazon & #Google were caught spending dark money on #climatedenial.

#oil corps-

https://activism.openworlds.info/@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo/102986760527834836

#deforestation corps:

https://activism.openworlds.info/@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo/102995287408726707
@fribbledom

All #ALEC members fund climate denial:
#ATT (AT&T)
#AmEx (American Express)
#Boeing
Charter Communications
#Chevron
#Farmers/Foremost
#FedEx
#Geico
#LMG (Liberty Mutual/Safeco)
#Marlboro (Philip Morris)
#Motorola
#Nationwide Insurance
#PNC bank
#Sony
#StateFarm
#Texaco
#TimeWarner

@news_en
I see no clear action to "fight back" in that article. But if you want to take action, then #cycle instead of burning fuel. And if you must burn fuel, then at least #boycott #Exxon, #Chevron, & #Texaco.

@patricksudlow
I wouldn't be fast to say the whole USA is anti-union. Workers rights are regulated at the state level not the fed. That article relates to #NewYork (and it's a surprise workers rights would be a fight in the generally progressive state of NY).

#ALEC is the conservative org who (among other evils) fights against workers rights nationwide in the US, so #boycott all ALEC members (#ATT, #Chevron, #Texaco, #FedEx, #PNC Bank, #TimeWarner, #Sony, #Motorola).

If you must buy fuel, then I suggest a #boycott on #Chevron & #Texaco at a minimum as they are both still die-hard #ALEC members. #Exxon Mobil has the deepest history of destruction, so boycott them too.