Ecuador

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Letter to New Chevron CEO, John Watson: You Have an Opportunity to Resolve Human Tragedy in Ecuador

Han Shan | Posted 12.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Texaco, Corporations, Big Oil, Contamination, Ecuador, Oil, John Watson, Amazon Watch, Chevron, Corporate Greed, Indigenous People, Lawsuit, Amazon, Green News

This letter references a confidential corporate memo that provides shocking insight into the reckless practices employed by Texaco (now Chevron) in Ecuador.

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Ecuador's Rafael Correa: Copenhagen Climate Hero or Environmental Foe?

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 12.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Copenhagen Climate Conference, Rafael Correa, Copenhagen 2009, Latin America, Global South, Ecuador, Green News

One key figure pressuring the Global North to live up to its responsibilities is Rafael Correa, firebrand president of the small Andean nation of Ecuador.

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White Cats, Black Cats and China's Foreign Aid

Peter Bosshard | Posted 12.09.2009 | World

Read More: Debt, Foreign Aid, Ecuador, Dams, International Rivers, China, World, Chinese Economy, China Debt, Us Debt China, China Economy, World News

China offers foreign aid with no political strings attached. The only exception is that recipient governments must accept the One-China policy, i.e. may not recognize Taiwan. "Business is business."

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How To Green Your Holiday Meal

Avital Binshtock | Posted 11.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Pesticides, Organic Farming, Hanukkah, Soil, Turkey, Agriculture, Thanksgiving, Flowers, Green, Toxins, Soup Kitchen, Decor, Vegetables, Christmas, Dishwasher, Leftovers, Holidays, Holiday Season, Food Banks, Crops, Ecuador, Green Living, Reusable, Family Meals, Decorating, Imports, Menu, Organic Food, Fruit, Cornucopia, Colombia, Water, Environment, Tips, Homeless Shelters, Food, Decorating Tips, Green News

Working up a menu for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, or another upcoming holiday? Here are three tips to help you be more environmentally responsible while planning that feast.

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Oil Giant Chevron Accused of "Extortion" on Capitol Hill

Han Shan | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Corporations, Big Oil, Lobbying, Ecuador, Lobbyists, Oil, Chevron, Corporate Greed, Barack Obama, Lawsuit, Indigenous People, Amazon, Green News

Chevron is making an extraordinary lobbying effort to evade responsibility for its massive toxic contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon. In solidarity with all communities where Big Oil puts profit ahead of people, we must say "no more."

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An Open Letter to Chevron's New CEO

Michael Brune | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Rainforest Action Network, 350.Org, Rainforest, Big Oil, Climate Change, Ecuador, Oil, Clean Energy, Amazon Rainforest, Chevron, Chevron Ecuador, Oil Companies, Green News

These two issues -- climate change and the environmental and human rights impacts of Chevron's operations -- are likely to define your tenure as Chief Executive Officer. How will you respond?

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Do We Want To Be The Generation That Destroyed Ourselves?

Trudie Styler | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Sting, Copenhagen 2009, Rainforest, Ecuador, Trudie Styler, Amazon Rainforest, Rainforests, Rainforest Foundation, Copenhagen, Green News

As we go forward to Copenhagen, the signs are not good. In the face of the greatest crisis our world has faced for generations, too many powerful people are behaving with shocking irresponsibility.

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The Movie Chevron Doesn't Want You to See

Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Ecuador, Oil Industry, Human Rights, Chevron, Joe Berlinger, Rainforest, Crude, Environment, Texaco, Amazon, Pablo Fajardo, Green News

Many have heard of Chevron-Texaco's contamination of the Amazonian rainforests. Joe Berlinger's film, Crude, brings the battle to bring them to justice to life in a way words cannot.

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El Museo del Barrio: Fifth Avenue on Fire

Jim Luce | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York

Read More: Uruguay, Puerto Rico, Agnes Gund, Central Park, Robert Motherwell, The Suicide of Dorothy Hale, El Barrio, Latin American Culture, Global Citizens, Peru, Carmen Ana Unanue Galleries, New Workers’ School Cycle, Yale University Press, Wilfredo Lam, Dominican Republic, Fifth Avenue, Metlife, Michael Bloomberg, On View - Voces Y Visiones, Miguel Sal, Mexico, Caribbean Culture, Miguel Covarrubias, Museum of the City of New York, Lenin, Brazil, JuliáN Zugazagoitia, Ecuador, Art, Frida Kahlo, Man at the Crossroads, Latino Culture, Diego Rivera, Cuba, Bolivia, Upper East Side, Salvador Dali, Thought Leaders, Henry Luce Foundation, Dorothy Hale, East Harlem, Michelle De Leon, Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, John Lee, El Museo Del Barrio, Rockefeller Center Mural, Raphael MontañEz Ortiz, Latino Traditions, Mexico City, Rockefeller Discovering the Rivera Murals, Rockefeller Family, Marcel Duchamp, Nexus New York - Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis, Elvira Moran, Chile, Terra Foundation for American Art, Daily Kos, Opponent of Fascism, Empire State Building, Deborah Cullen, Art Commission of the City of New York, American Avant-Garde, Museum of Modern Art, Museum Mile, TaíNo, Pre-Columbian, New York News

Forty years ago, El Museo del Barrio was a dream contained in a single classroom so far north that “sophisticated” Manhattanites would not...

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Chevron and Cultural Genocide in Ecuador

Kerry Kennedy | Posted 11.04.2009 | Home

Read More: Ecuador, Texaco, Cancer, Toxic Waste, Chevron, Rainforest, Oil Companies, Amazon Rainforest, Home News

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.

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Chevron Gets Fixed

Antonia Juhasz | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Ecuador, Angola, Chevron, Burma, Climate Change, Protest, Oil, Yes Men, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Torture Memos, Big Oil, Green News

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.

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How Trudie Styler Is Winning Hearts and Minds at ... Chevron?

Michael Brune | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Chevron, Oil Spill, Ecuador, Trudie Styler, Oil, Climate Change, Chevron Ecuador, Lawsuit, Oil Companies, Crude-Movie-Review, Washington Post, Green News

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.

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Ecuador wants money not to drill

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.27.2009 | Home

Read More: Ecuador, Home News

President asks Europe to pay his country $4 bn not to drill for oil in the Amazon....

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End of the Dollar Dictatorship? Hugo Chavez and Latin Leaders Hope to Bury the Greenback

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

Read More: Ecuador, U.S. Dollar, Alba, Venezuela, Sucre, Chavez American Antagonism, Hugo Chavez, Alba Sucre, Alba Currency, Chavez Sucre, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, World News

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.

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Switzerland, Slovakia qualify for World Cup

AP | STUART CONDIE | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Guimares, ChorzóW-Germany, Germany, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hamburg, Basel-Switzerland, Switzerland, Hungary, Ecuador, Uruguay, Italy, Slovenia, Mexico, Cyprus, Serbia, Bosnia, South Africa, Chile, Honduras, Poland, France, The Netherlands, Japan, Russia, Austria, Brazil, Australia, Portugal, North Korea, Paraguay, Slovakia, United Kingdom, Ghana, Argentina, Luxembourg, Ukraine, Finland, Spain, South Korea, Greece, Cote D'Ivoire, Costa Rica, Ireland, Denmark, Czech Republic, Home News

— 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.

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Crude's Important Story, And What You Can Do To Help

Joe Berlinger | Posted 10.13.2009 | Impact

Read More: Rainforest Foundation, Unicef, Joe Berlinger, Chevron Ecuador, Crude, Ecuador, Trudie Styler, Impact News

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.

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Turning the Corner on Drug Law Reform

Norm Stamper | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ecuador, The Netherlands, Law Enforement Against Prohibition, Argentina, Mexico, Carol Ruth Silver, Drug War, Colombia, Brazil, Drug Laws, Leap, Drug Policy, Politics News

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.

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Will the U.S. Ignore the Murder of a Young American Abroad?

Julie Araskog | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Murder, Daniela Lopez, Ecuador, Murder Investigation, Living News

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?

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Ecuador Indians clash with police

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 12.01.2009 | Home

Read More: Ecuador, Home News

At least one person feared dead after authorities move to disband land protests....

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Quiet Voices from CGI: Those that Fight the Epic Battle in the Ecuador Rain Forest

Michelle Kraus | Posted 11.25.2009 | World

Read More: Chernobyl, Clinton Global Initiative, Joe Berlinger, Cgi, Rainforest, Ecuador, Chevron, Amazon Rainforest, Chevron Ecuador, Amazon, World News

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.

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Trudie Styler Invites Chevron Workers to the Movies

Michael Brune | Posted 11.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Amazon-Watch, Rainforest Action Network, Chevron, Crude, Rainforest, Ecuador, Celebrity Activism, Trudie Styler, Oil, Climate Change, Amazon Rainforest, Chevron Ecuador, Amazon, Green News

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?

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Chevron Desperate? Just a BIT

Daniel Firger | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Free Trade, International Law, Human Rights, Chevron, Ecuador, Foreign Policy, Green News

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.

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Chevron seeks Ecuador liability in pollution case

AP | Posted 11.23.2009 | Home

Read More: The Hague-Netherlands, Netherlands, Ecuador, The Netherlands, Home News

Chevron Corp. on Wednesday filed suit against the government of Ecuador for trade violations, an effort to protect against a potentially negative ruling in a separate $27 billion suit over environmental damage.

Chevron accuses Ecuador of "exploitation" for its pursuit of an ongoing lawsuit over environmental damage the plaintiffs allege Texaco caused in the Amazon rain forest between 1972 and 1990. Chevron, the second-largest U.S. oil company, acquired Texaco in 2001.

Chevron claims Texaco already paid millions to clean up the region as part of a 1998 agreement with the government and is not liable for further damages. Company officials also have said Texaco's former partner, state oil company Petroecuador, continued to pollute the region after Texaco departed.

Chevron's complaint against Ecuador was filed with the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Netherlands. It effectively seeks international arbitration of the environmental dispute, which would be legally binding.

In the filing, Chevron says Ecuador is trying to shift its own share of liability for any remaining environmental damage to Chevron, as well as liability for Petroecuador's own oil operations since 1992 and damage caused by "government-sanctioned colonization and agricultural and industrial exploitation of the Amazonian region." It says the nation's conduct has violated investment agreements and Ecuador-U.S. trade agreements.

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WATCH: Trailer For Crude, Film About The Chevron Vs. Ecuador Legal Battle

Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact

Read More: Amazon Rainforest, Chevron, Crude, Ecuador, Joe Berlinger, Impact News

Filmmaker Joe Berlinger's new documentary, Crude, explores the fierce $27 billion legal battle raging between oil giant Chevron and the indigenous peo...

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HuffPost Review: Crude

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Crude, Texaco, Chevron, Oil Spill, Ecuador, Joel Berlinger, Green News

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.

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