WATCH: Chevron's Ecuador Problem Forces Andy Rooney to Drop the H-Bomb...Something He Really, Really, Hates to Do

We love Andy Rooney and he gets mad at a lot of things (like iPhones or Ali G). But now he turns his anger at sleazy lawyers, sleazy journalists, and one of the world's sleaziest corporations.

In May's 60 Minutes segment "Amazon Crude," Scott Pelley explored Chevron Texaco's past operations in Ecuador and the toxic remains left behind. We were all outraged as footage ran of oozing oil pits left by Chevron, children swimming in Chevron's polluted rivers, and families dealing with health problems -- from cancers to miscarriages -- caused by Chevron's dirty operations. This is the reality faced by Amazonian communities in Ecuador that live in the wake of Chevron's human rights catastrophe, a reality that Chevron disputes and refuses to account for.

Andy Rooney doesn't like that....

In fact, Andy Rooney hates what Chevron is doing -- leaving 18 billion gallons of wastewater and 17 million gallons of crude oil to pollute Amazonian communities, and then trying to pretend that nothing ever happened.

But it doesn't have to be like this. When Andy Rooney was young...kids played in the streets, you knew your neighbors, Mom baked hot, fresh pies while Dad and Jimmy tossed a baseball in the yard...and corporations like Chevron owned up to their mistakes.

You can turn back the clock to a happier time, and turn Rooney's hate into love, by learning more about the lawsuit that has Andy and millions of other people enraged.

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Comments

[condor101]

Great Video!!!
I read about Chevron's pollution of the Amazon in Ecuador months ago.
I'm glad this is still in the news. It's very important to bring this polluter to the attention of more people.

Shame on Chevron.

[njmagel]

This video is hilarious! Unfortunately Chevron's toxic leftovers in the amazon is far from hilarious. Chevron left billions of gallons of toxic wastewater and millions of gallons of crude oil throughout Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, leaving the communities to deal with the cancer and deaths that followed.

I hope Chevron listen's to Andy Rooney and others to do the right thing. I'm not holding my breath. Chevron recently said that they will in no way respect the rule of law in Ecuador no matter what the outcome of the case! Also they recently dumped millions of dollars into 3 new public relations firms!
you can read more about Chevron's commitment to not resepect Ecuador's courts, and their new PR force at

www.chevroninecuador.com

Think about what those millions could do if they dumped them into communities they are destroying to start clean energy projects.

[TxAggie]

Chevron had not a damn thing to do with it, it was Texaco and the government was their 40% partner. Texaco was allowed to withdraw under an agreement with the govenrment owned oil company PetroEcuador is responsible for their share of the mess and they indemnified Texaco upon their withdrawal­.. Petroecuador is culpable, a convenient fact ignored bby the press, Andy Rooney included however funny he may seem.

[ADP4]

Very cool- thanks for sharing this. I didn't know about the extent of the problems with Chevron in Ecuador, much less that Andy Rooney was on the case.