Chevron and Cultural Genocide in Ecuador
I had heard about what has been called "Chevron's Chernobyl in the Amazon" for years. But nothing could prepare me for the horror I witnessed this week in Ecuador.
I had heard about what has been called "Chevron's Chernobyl in the Amazon" for years. But nothing could prepare me for the horror I witnessed this week in Ecuador.
Antonia Juhasz | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green
On Sunday, Chevron became the first oil company to come under a Yes Men Audience Attack. Chevron was chosen because it's different from other oil companies.
Michael Brune | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green
As Joe Berlinger's Crude continues to rack up favorable reviews, a captivating email back-and-forth has been revealed between Trudie Styler and executives at Chevron.
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.27.2009 | Home
President asks Europe to pay his country $4 bn not to drill for oil in the Amazon....
Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 10.23.2009 | World
The Sucre will act as a payment compensation mechanism and allow ALBA nations in Latin America to reconcile accounts when they carry out commercial transactions in local currency.
AP | STUART CONDIE | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home
— Switzerland and Slovakia earned Europe's final two automatic berths for next year's World Cup on Wednesday night, while Argentina tried to beat out Uruguay and Ecuador for South America's last certain spot in the 32-nation field.
Costa Rica played at the United States, which clinched its sixth straight berth last weekend, and the Ticos hoped to stay ahead of Honduras and gain the final automatic place from North and Central America and the Caribbean.
Portugal, Greece, Slovenia and Ukraine finished second in their groups and joined Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, Ireland and Russia in the European playoffs. They will be drawn into four pairs on Monday, and the winners of home-and-home, total-goals matches on Nov. 14 and 18 will qualify for next year's 32-nation field.
By the end of Wednesday, 23 of the 32 nations will have been determined for next year's tournament in South Africa.
In addition to the U.S., Mexico had ensured a berth in CONCACAF, while Denmark, England, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Serbia and Spain had clinched automatic berths in Europe. Brazil, Chile and Paraguay had earned berths from South America, and Australia, Japan, North Korea and South Korea won Asia's spots. Ghana and Ivory Coast joined host South Africa, which qualified automatically as host.
Joe Berlinger | Posted 10.13.2009 | Impact
For the past month, I've been traveling around the country presenting my new film Crude to theatrical audiences. The first question is invariably, "What can we do to help these people?" Here's how I answer.
Norm Stamper | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
Australians are acutely aware that the U.S. is and has been since 1971 the chest-thumping, fist-banging four-star general in the global war on drugs. Their willingness to stand up to our bullying ways is growing.
Julie Araskog | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living
Are our citizens really more interested in seeing what celebrity gets their hair cut at a salon than finding the killer of an innocent 26-year-old girl? Makes you think, doesn't it?
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.01.2009 | Home
At least one person feared dead after authorities move to disband land protests....
Michelle Kraus | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
As they marshal the forces of good at the Clinton Global Initiative to help alleviate the atrocities leveled against the people and lands of Ecuador, let the games begin.
Michael Brune | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
Just because your CEO is entangled in one environmental and human rights controversy after another doesn't mean you can't care about the planet, does it?
Daniel Firger | Posted 10.01.2009 | Green
Seeking to forestall a judgment running to the tens of billions of dollars in its so-called "Rainforest Chernobyl" litigation, Chevron on Wednesday filed a notice of arbitration against the Government of Ecuador.
Posted 09.18.2009 | Impact
Filmmaker Joe Berlinger's new documentary, Crude, explores the fierce $27 billion legal battle raging between oil giant Chevron and the indigenous peo...
Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 09.15.2009 | Green
The wheels of justice turn slowly in Ecuador, and in a country plagued with corruption and weak institutions, including the judiciary, it's easy for the oil companies to get their way.
Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
Given the overwhelming scientific evidence against the company, a potential $27 billion judgment possibly a month out, news of the "scandal" was seen by many as a fourth-quarter Hail Mary, if not something more sinister.
nytimes.com | SIMON ROMERO and CLIFFORD KRAUSS | Posted 10.17.2009 | World
CARACAS, Venezuela -- The oil giant Chevron said Monday that it had obtained video recordings of meetings in Ecuador this year that appear to reveal a...
Marshall Fine | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment
"I got dragged in kicking and screaming," Joe Berlinger is saying on the telephone. "It's the last film I thought I would make."
Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 09.19.2009 | Green
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.
The Huffington Post | Posted 08.27.2009 | World
A New York-based model has accused an Ecuadorian billionaire businessman and politician of luring her to Ecuador and forcing her to have sex with him,...
Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green
Chevron is fighting tooth and nail to save themselves from being held accountable for 3 billion barrels of spilled oil and the nearly 1,000 open pits they left behind in Ecuador.
NYCity News Service | NYCity News Service | Posted 07.25.2009 | Home
Rosa Martinez used to stroll to the local money transfer office in Corona every week to send $200 to her family in Cuenca, Ecuador. She still goes to ...
Johann Hari | Posted 07.24.2009 | World
Will we allow a small number of rich people to make a short-term profit from seizing and burning resources, at the expense of our collective ability to survive?
Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media
Sooner of later the neighbors will smell that tremendous mountain of decaying garbage Chevron's been hiding in the backyard.
treehugger.com | Posted 07.17.2009 | Green
So it's not exactly adorable, but it's pretty amazing looking. Recently discovered on an expedition through Ecuador by Conservation International, the...
Kerry Kennedy | Posted 11.04.2009 | Home