Friday, October 23rd 2009
“On his Oct. 22 CNN program, Rick Sanchez wore his American guilt like a badge of honor and said he wasn’t going to stand for America to look bad because of what a corporation had been accused of doing, in this case Chevron (NYSE:CVX), whether they did it or not.”
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Thursday, October 22nd 2009
“Despite a looming deadline, Ecuador hasn’t chosen an arbitrator for the claim that Chevron Corp. (CVX) filed last month against it with the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague, and will take some time to appoint a representative.”
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Monday, October 19th 2009
“Crude justice”
By Will Wray – Opinion – The Brown Daily Herald, October 19, 2009
“Taking samples from these areas and blaming Texaco is akin to your current landlord calling you sixteen years after you moved out and demanding you pay a fine for a mess that subsequent tenants left behind.”
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Monday, October 19th 2009
“Petroamazonas to develop a new field in Ecuador’s Amazon region”
Petroleum World, October 19, 2009
“Ecuadorian oil firm Petroamazonas said Thursday it will begin developing a new field in the country’s Amazon region with a capacity to produce 23,000 barrels per day of “semi-heavy” crude.”
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Friday, October 16th 2009
“Ecuadorian Oil Firm Announces New Amazon Field”
Latin American Herald Tribune, October 16, 2009
“Chevron says Texaco did its part in the clean-up effort years ago, that a previous Ecuadorian government cleared it of all responsibility in 1998 and that Petroecuador is to blame for the pollution.”
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Thursday, October 15th 2009
“Lobbyist’s Disclosure Documents Raise Serious Questions in Chevron-Ecuador Lawsuit”
Bob McCarty Writes, October 14, 2009
“Today, I offer evidence suggesting Ben Barnes, lobbyist for the plaintiff in a lawsuit that could cost San Ramon, Calif.-based Chevron $27 billion, has been reading this blog. It takes a while to explain, but I think you’ll find it offers worthwhile and relevant information about the Chevron lawsuit now being tried in a thoroughly-corrupt Ecuadoran legal system.”
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Wednesday, October 14th 2009
“Let the Personal Attacks Continue”
Shopfloor.com, October 12, 2009
“The activist/trial lawyer combine driving the $27 billion lawsuit against Chevron loves to wield the personal attack, demonizing the company, its employees and anybody else who argues that the litigation is baseless.”
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Monday, October 12th 2009
“Blogger says NY Times uses misleading photo to blame Chevron in Ecuador case”
By Zennie62 – SFGate.com, October 12, 2009
“Two bloggers, Carter Wood of ShopFloor.org and Jeff Poor of Business & Media Institute are pointing a finger at the New York Times for using a photo and a story that seems to blame Chevron for environmental damage from oil production in Ecuador. Chevron has not operated in Ecuador since 1992. It turned over its production to the state-run company Petroecuador.”
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Monday, October 12th 2009
“NY Times Plays Photo Tricks to Condemn Chevron in Ecuador Dispute”
Business & Media Institute, October 12, 2009
“As the old saying goes, a photo, can say a thousand things. But what it can’t say is how it can be used to say one thing, but really be another thing. And that’s just how The New York Times used it.”
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Monday, October 5th 2009
“Chevron Ecuador case has new judge; Nicolas Zambrano”
By Zennie62 – SFGate.com, October 5, 2009
“Ecuador’s lawsuit (which it can now be called officially since Ecuador would get any award money Chevron would have to pay) has a new judge after Judge Juan Nunez officially stepped down in the wake of the alleged video bribery scandal. He is Judge Nicolas Zambrano.”
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Friday, October 2nd 2009
“Amazon Defense Coalition PR Follies”
Chevron Ecuador Lawsuit, October 2, 2009
“When a credible organization publishes a press release that is later shown to contain inaccurate information, it releases a correction or retraction to inform the public of its error. So what does the Amazon Defense Coalition do when its press releases are proven to contain inaccurate information? Absolutely nothing.”
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Wednesday, September 30th 2009
“Court replaces judge in Chevron pollution case”
AP, September 29, 2009
“An Ecuadorean court dealt the plaintiffs a setback Tuesday in a $27 billion environmental contamination lawsuit against Chevron Corp., accepting the presiding judge’s request to be removed from the case.”
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Wednesday, September 30th 2009
“Ecuador Court Accepts Judge’s Recusal In Chevron Case”
Dow Jones, September 29, 2009
“The Provincial Court of Justice of Sucumbios decided on Monday to accept the recusal of Nunez.”
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Wednesday, September 30th 2009
“Ecuador Judge Recused in Chevron Case”
AP, September 29, 2009
“Judge Nunez asked to be removed from the case earlier this month after Chevron released a video in which two businessmen repeatedly ask him if he planned to rule against Chevron and he is heard to answer “yes.” Chevron says the businessmen were asked to pay million-dollar bribes for a remediation contract by a political ally of Correa.”
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Wednesday, September 30th 2009
“Court does about-face on Chevron judge”
Upstream Online, September 29, 2009
“A court in Ecuador has said it will let a judge overseeing a multi-billion dollar lawsuit against US supermajor Chevron recuse himself from the case after initially denying his request.”
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Tuesday, September 29th 2009
“Chevron Asks Court to Remove Ecuador Judge From Pollution Case”
Bloomberg, September 29, 2009
“Nunez “has betrayed the public trust and violated his solemn duty to judge impartially and independently,” Adolfo Callejas Ribadeneira, a Chevron lawyer, said in the filing.”
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Tuesday, September 29th 2009
“Chevron Swings Back at Ecuador”
The Motley Fool, September 29, 2009
“In essence, by filing the suit, Chevron is requesting arbitration through a procedure established by a United Nations commission specializing in international trade law. That procedure is separate from the core lawsuit, although under the 1997 pact, Ecuador is required to recognize arbitration as binding.”
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Monday, September 28th 2009
“Chevron goes on the attack in Ecuador”
PetroleumWorld.com, September 28, 2009
“Chevron Corporation, the U.S. oil company being tried in Ecuadorian courts for environmental damages estimated at $26 billion, has gone on the attack by filing an international arbitration claim before the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.”
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Friday, September 25th 2009
“From Lago Agrio to The Hague: Chevron Looks East for New Venue”
AM Law Daily, September 25, 2009
“The company’s press release emphasized that Chevron is not alone in highlighting “the demise” of Ecuador’s judiciary. It quoted from a recent State Department report: “Systemic weakness and susceptibility to political or economic pressures in the rule of law constitute the most important problem faced by U.S. companies investing in or trading with Ecuador.”
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Friday, September 25th 2009
“Top arbitration court to hear Chevron-Ecuador feud”
AFP, September 24, 2009
“The California-based firm said it had filed a claim against Ecuador “citing violations of the country’s obligations under the United States-Ecuador Bilateral Investment Treaty, investment agreements, and international law.
“The complaint stems from the government of Ecuador’s exploitation of the going lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador, as well as the government’s failure to uphold its duties under decade-old contracts.””
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Thursday, June 24th 2010
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. Read More »Thursday, June 24th 2010
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. Read More »Friday, June 11th 2010
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. Read More »Friday, July 30th 2010
Ecuador will begin in August the contract talks with foreign oil companies operating in the country: Ecuador will begin negotiating with oil majors in August new contracts to favor the state, Non-Renewable Resources Minister Wilson Pastor said on Thursday, setting the clock ticking for firms in the OPEC nation. Read More »Friday, July 30th 2010
Ecuador is planning to show new draft contracts to oil companies operating in the country: Ecuador's government plans to submit to private oil companies on Friday the model contract that will be used to exchange current production-sharing deals for service contracts. Negotiations with each company will start in the second week of August, the country's minister for non-renewable natural resources said Thursday. Read More »Friday, July 30th 2010
Ecuador will decide on a contract with a subsidiary of a U.S. based oil company: Ecuador will decide by November whether to continue the contract of Energy Development Corp., or EDC, a subsidiary of U.S.-based oil and gas producer Noble Energy Inc. (NBL), the country's minister for non-renewable natural resources told Dow Jones Newswires. Read More »