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SFGate.com – Ecuador one contract away from owning oil production and profits

Chevron Ecuador — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:35:27 +0000

Another post on Amazon Watch and the Chevron Ecuador case:

While Amazon Watch and Steven Donziger yell and scream about American Chevron in an attempt to extort billions while claiming to represent Ecuador’s “indigenous people,” Ecuador President Rafael Correa is just one signed contract away from that country successfully nationalizing revenue from its oil industry.

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SFGate.com – Amazon Watch is afraid to sue Ecuador

Chevron Ecuador — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:03:10 +0000

This new blog post on the San Francisco Chronicle’s website discusses Steven Donziger’s role in the trial in Ecuador and the fabricated “independent court expert” report:

In the never-ending Chevron Ecuador legal battle, Laywer Steven Donziger (the head of a decade-long battle to extort billions from Chevron for environmental damage caused by the Ecuador-owned Petroecuador and Ecuador President Rafael Correa’s policy of allowing oil production in the Amazon, while having kicked out American oil companies) and the Amazon Watch organization yesterday called for additional damages against Chevron in Ecuador, citing alleged sabotage of the court proceedings by Chevron.

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FDI Magazine – Will treaty save Chevron in Amazon rain forest dispute?

Chevron Ecuador — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:16:18 +0000

Chevron Ecuador case is profiled:

After years of litigation over its liability for environmental damage in the Amazon rain forest, the Chevron Corporation is going all-in in its fight with Ecuador by seeking to persuade a panel of international arbitrators that the country’s courts cannot be trusted to dispense justice for foreign investors.

Last September, the US oil giant filed a claim for ‘denial of justice’ under a foreign investment protection treaty between the US and Ecuador. The claim is now a major part of the company’s damage-control strategy. Chevron has been readying itself for some time for a massive loss in the Ecuadorian courts, where plaintiffs are seeking to saddle the firm with a $30bn clean-up bill.

Chevron insists that Ecuador’s state oil company, PetroEcuador, bears liability for any clean-up, adding that the country’s politically tainted courts are colluding with PetroEcuador and the country’s government to lay the blame at Chevron’s door.

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SFGate.com – NY Times Bob Hebert’s failed column

Chevron Ecuador — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:47:14 +0000

Article that takes issue with the accuracy of the recent New York Times piece on Chevron Ecuador case:

It’s funny how a person can be coaxed into wading into a very complicated issue without knowing all of the facts. That’s what happened when The New York Times’ Columnist Bob Herbert wrote a grossly inaccurate column about Chervron’s involvement in Ecuador.

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San Francisco Sentinel – Amazon Defense Coalition, Chevron, and the Art of Overreach

Chevron Ecuador — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:55:17 +0000

This article calls out the fraud and involvement of the Government of Ecuador in the Chevron case:

Desperate to call attention to their misguided and foundering lawsuit in Ecuador against Chevron, the Amazon Defense Coalition is trying to link its case to the BP catastrophe now unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico.

The activist group is overplaying its hand once again with a ploy that will damage the credibility of the global environmental movement.

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SFGate.com – Chevron CEO talks BP Oil Spill; takes on Ecuador protestors

Chevron Ecuador — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:05:08 +0000

But, as Watson noted and recent news stories have reported, the case against Chevron in Ecuador has turned into a legal circus and become overshadowed by a series of alleged legal and political frauds in Ecuador.

Watson pointed to evidence such as the Ecuadorian judge who had to remove himself from the case because he was caught up in a bribery scandal against Chevron, and, more recently, significant and damaging evidence that the entire case has been written by the plaintiffs against Chevron and then simply copied by the ‘independent court expert’ Richard Cabrera and submitted to the court.

There is mounting evidence that when this trial concludes, and Chevron is found guilty, that no court in the world will enforce the $27 billion judgment against Chevron because it will be tainted by fraud and illegal activities by the plaintiffs.

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Dow Jones – Chevron Seeks To Dismiss Ecuador Court Appointment

Chevron Ecuador — Tue, 25 May 2010 18:17:07 +0000

Chevron Corp. (CVX) has asked a provincial court in Ecuador to nullify a court-appointed expert from an environmental lawsuit and to throw out his work due to what the company alleges was misconduct.

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Reuters – Chevron asks Ecuador court to dismiss key expert

Chevron Ecuador — Tue, 25 May 2010 18:16:14 +0000

Chevron Corp (CVX.N), which is in the throes of a multibillion-dollar pollution lawsuit in Ecuador, has asked courts there to disregard an environmental expert who has said the company should pay $27 billion in damages for polluting the Amazon rain forest.

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SFGate.com – Chevron finds Ecuador geologist Richard Cabrera committed fraud in lawsuit

Chevron Ecuador — Mon, 24 May 2010 18:19:26 +0000

Richard Cabrera, the Ecuador economist / geologist who’s name has appeared in this space as recently as February of 2010, is back in the news again. Chevron, who’s battling a lawsuit filed by Ecuador (but with the claim that it was issued by the indigenous people of Ecuador) claims to have found evidence that Cabrera was working with the real plaintiffs who filed the lawsuit. A suit that charges Chevron failed to do environmental cleanup in that country during its oil operations that ended 18 years ago. Those oil facilities were turned over to the Ecuador-run company called Petroecuador.

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SFGate.com – Chevron-Ecuador filmmaker of Crude ordered to turn over footage

Chevron Ecuador — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:40:14 +0000

In yet another court room victory for American Oil Company Chevron, a New York Judge ordered a filmmaker to turn over his footage used in the production of the documentary film Crude: The Real Price of Oil.

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The Guardian – Chevron wins access to film-maker’s Amazon pollution footage

Chevron Ecuador — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:38:08 +0000

A US federal court has ordered a documentary film-maker to hand over footage relating to pollution in the Amazon to the oil giant Chevron, the latest twist in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit.

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San Francisco Chronicle – Judge grants Chevron access to film footage

Chevron Ecuador — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:07:14 +0000

A federal judge on Thursday granted Chevron Corp.’s request to subpoena the unused footage of a documentary filmmaker whose film “Crude” explored a long-running lawsuit against the company in Ecuador.

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Reuters – Chevron wins bid to see Ecuador raw oil film clips

Chevron Ecuador — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:06:03 +0000

Chevron Corp (CVX.N) may review 600 hours of raw documentary film footage the company says includes evidence of misconduct by lawyers representing Ecuadoreans in a long-running dispute over oil pollution in the Amazon rain forest, a U.S. judge ruled on Thursday.

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Bob McCarty Writes – Chevron Accuses Plaintiff of Lying in $27B Lawsuit

Chevron Ecuador — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:25:54 +0000

During the past 12 months, I’ve published three-dozen posts about the 17-year-old lawsuit Chevron Corp. has been battling in Ecuador. A hotly-contested legal circus in a country where the legal system is corrupt, the case is important, because it has the potential of costing the San Ramon, Calif.-based oil giant $27 billion. Today, I share a new piece published at the company’s blog, The Amazon Post, under the headline, If at first you don’t succeed…. It appears below with notes of mine in red inside parentheses:

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San Francisco Sentinel – GULF COAST OIL SPILL MAY PALE IN COMPARISON TO AMAZON WATCH COVER UP OF PETROECUADOR SPILLS IN RAINFOREST

Chevron Ecuador — Wed, 05 May 2010 17:51:30 +0000

As the world watches the BP oil disaster along the Gulf Coast, a small but curious group of environmental activists, attorneys and government officials are involved in the largest cover-up of an oil disaster in world history.

For nearly 20 years, hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil have spilled into the Amazon River region of Ecuador. You might think it’s hard to hide that amount of oil. And, you’d be right. But the bad guys aren’t hiding the spill, they’re involved in a massive fraud to hide the party responsible for the spill.

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The Am Law Litigation Daily – Judge Kaplan Shows Little Deference for Documentary Filmmaker Who Chronicled Lago Agrio Dispute

Chevron Ecuador — Wed, 05 May 2010 17:24:33 +0000

In the latest wrinkle in the never-ending suit against Chevron for environmental contamination in Ecuador, Chevron is demanding 600 hours of raw footage from a filmmaker whose outtakes allegedly show collusion between plaintiffs lawyers and purportedly neutral Ecuadorian experts. The filmmaker’s lawyer says he deserves journalistic protection. Judge Kaplan doesn’t seem to think so.

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San Francisco Chronicle – Chevron wants unused film on Ecuador dispute

Chevron Ecuador — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:06:34 +0000

Chevron Corp. has gone to court seeking the unused footage from a documentary film about the $27 billion lawsuit against the oil company in Ecuador.

Chevron, based in San Ramon, has asked a federal judge in New York to force filmmaker Joe Berlinger to grant the company access to more than 600 hours of footage left out of the movie “Crude,” which was released last year. Berlinger is fighting the company’s request.

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Oil & Gas Journal – Chevron elicits rebuke of ‘60 Minutes’ smear

Chevron Ecuador — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:10:14 +0000

Chevron has scored public-relations points in its legal quagmire in Ecuador—against the television network CBS, no less.

When it bought Texaco in 2001, Chevron inherited an environmental lawsuit in which plaintiffs now seek damages totaling an incredible $23 billion.

Texaco had spent $40 million to address environmental complaints and thought it had been released from liability by the government—a point of dispute in the lawsuit. Since succeeding with an effort to move the case to Ecuador, Chevron has suffered setbacks and now calls Ecuadorian courts corrupt. Last year it filed for international arbitration.

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San Francisco Chronicle – CBS News “60 Minutes” slamed by CJR for Chevron Ecuador segment

Chevron Ecuador — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:41:44 +0000

CBS News 60 Minutes was massively body slammed by Martha M. Hamilton of the Columbia Journalism Review Thursday, for presenting in a May 3, 2009 segment what Hamilton writes was “clear impression that Chevron trashed the place and left, while downplaying the fact that Petroecuador has been operating alone at the former Texaco sites since 1990.”

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PointofLaw.com – “We don’t see a need to discuss this any further than the story we put on the air”

Chevron Ecuador — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:04:18 +0000

The Columbia Journalism Review — not a publication that will be suspected of conservative or pro-business biases — is strongly criticizing a May 2009 “60 Minutes” segment that attacked Chevron over the Ecuador oil litigation. The CBS program’s response? To stonewall and say its methods of developing its products are its own affair and nobody else’s. Imagine what “60 Minutes” would say if one of its targets tried to use such a line….

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