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  • Chevron Takes Battle To Radical Environmentalist Lobby

    04/03/2014 4:27:06 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 15 replies
    Investors.com ^ | April 3, 2014 | IBD Editorial
    Litigation: After thwarting a $9.5 billion judgment from an Ecuadorean court, Chevron is going after the entire edifice of environmentalist enablers who make such junk lawsuits possible. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. To the surprise of many, the oil giant is suing the tony, white-shoe law firm of Patton Boggs for alleged unethical involvement in an all-out legal attack by environmentalists over rainforest pollution in Ecuador. Chevron accuses the oh-so-respected firm of lying, concealing inconvenient facts, running a public smear campaign and miscellaneous other flim-flammery, all for the sake of the dollar signs spinning in their eyes. This poses...
  • State of denial: Stakes huge in oil giant's Ecuador trial

    10/19/2003 11:47:35 AM PDT · by farmfriend · 4 replies · 202+ views
    Sacramento Bee ^ | October 19, 2003 | Tom Knudson
    <p>Until now, few people outside of South America have ever heard of Lago Agrio -- a crime-ridden oil boomtown in Ecuador's Amazon rain forest, near the Colombia border.</p> <p>That is likely to change this week as lawyers from the United States and Ecuador gather in the ramshackle community for one of the biggest oil pollution trials in history, a case that is being watched closely by legal scholars, environmentalists, human rights advocates and multinational corporations.</p>