The planet's food chain is becoming more toxic than the planet's governments.
Just rejoice at that.

#oilpollution
#plasticpollution
#foodchain
#corrupt
#governments

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

#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/

"For 33 years, someone has traveled here each summer to photograph the unassuming boulder, nicknamed Mearns Rock. Collectively, the photos are an unexpected offshoot of one of the United States’ worst environmental disasters."

"To this day...at certain beaches [one can] find pockets of toxic oil just a spoonful of sand beneath the surface."
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/alaskans-have-been-photographing-this-volkswagen-beetle-sized-boulder-for-33-years/
#Alaska #ExxonValdez #OilPollution #environment

Nigeria tussles with Shell and Eni over oil spill

https://www.dw.com/en/nigeria-tussles-with-shell-and-eni-over-oil-spill/a-65677138?maca=en-dipa_news_mstdn-34613-xml-mrss

#Africa #Nigeria #Shell #Eni #oilspill #environmentaldamage #oilpollution #NigerDelta

All this blablabla in COP27. Meanwhile, closeby, very closeby...

#COP27    #Egypt #coralreefs #biodiversity #Oil

RT @WeSea@twitter.com

As #Egypt hosts world leaders at #COP27 to discuss #action over #ClimateChange, an oil terminal is dumping toxic #wastewater on the country's #RedSea coast ⚠️

#OpenYourEyes #FossilFuels #OilPollution
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63603861

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/WeSea/status/1592889490481504256