[Translate] Steven Donziger “Chevron Ecuador Burford Capital Accuses Steven Donziger Of Fraud,” is a blockbuster story. The latest news in the lawsuit pitting plaintiff’s lead by New York Lawyer Steven Donziger (who claims to represent Ecuador’s indigenous people) against American oil company Chevron. Burford Capital is one of the investors in the lawsuit that Ecuador and American lawyers led by Donziger have filed against Chevron. But it turns out that Burford discovered that they too had been lied to by...
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[Translate] Steven Donziger A huge development: Fernando Reyes, a petroleum engineer who was part of Steve Donziger’s team working on the fraudulent lawsuit against Chevron and stemming from the American Oil Company’s work in Ecuador up to 1992, has turned against his team and admitted what this blogger has known for years: that the lawsuit was based...
[Translate] Chevron Chevron Corporation attempted to have the U.S. Supreme Court take on the case of Ecuador plaintiff’s fraudulent lawsuit against the American Oil Company – one that has resulted in a corrupt Ecuador court handing down a judgement of now $19 billion against the San Ramon-based firm for alleged environmental damage that was in point...
[Translate] In the wake of the Richmond Refinery fire, Chevron has issued this statement: Dear Members of the Community: We apologize for the fire and smoke caused by yesterday’s incident. Nothing is more important than safe operations and yesterday we did not meet that expectation. The fire is now under control. We are currently working on clean-up and investigation. We will continue to work with government agencies to determine the cause of the incident and see to it that it never happens again. We will work hard to repair the...
[Translate] Yesterday, an explosion of some kind rocked the Chevron Richmond Refinery, sending giant plumes of smoke miles into the air, and that could be seen from almost all parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. NBC News Bay Area ran a video hangout live stream on Monday that featured an overhead view of the fire in progress: Chevron has posted a video of the...
[Translate] Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan, who was the first legal overseer to recognize that the Steven Donziger-led lawsuit against Chevron and that caused the corrupt Ecuador court to issue an $18 billion damage claim that was recently raised to $19 billion, has allowed Chevron’s pursuit of a fraud claim to move forward. In order to avoid triggering another...
[Translate] More Chevron Ecuador news. About two years ago, an associate with Amazon Watch I will not name tried to bully Kevin Skaggs and Vlae Kershner of SFGate.com, the website of The San Francisco Chronicle, into making me alter a blog post where I asserted that Ecuador was a party to the lawsuit against Chevron. That means the Government of Ecuador was an active participant in the lawsuit, and runs counter to Steven Donziger’s claims that they were acting only with and for the native tribes of Ecuador’s Amazon region....
[Translate] The Chevron Ecuador case contains thousands of pages of documents, many online for anyone who cares to research. One document contains the emails and papers of Chevron Ecuador lead plaintiff lawyer Steven Donziger. This blogger found a great October 2005 document that details the public relations plan of attack against Chevron – one that Donziger and Karen Hinton of the Amazon Defense Coalition have put into play for the past seven years. Here it is, in full: MEMORANDUM October 1, 2005 ROLL-OUT PLAN Please find...
[Translate] Chevron Ecuador: the latest news has the U.S. Chamber of Commerce blasting Steve Donziger and the so-called Amazon Defense Coalition for what many are starting to call “tort tourism,” or the practice of American lawyers traveling the World in search of situations in other countries where they think they can land a big lawsuit payday. According...
[Translate] More Chevron Ecuador news: the U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and his staff have released the report called “Sixth Report to the Congress on the Operation of the Andean Trade Preference Act as Amended June 30, 2012.” Is a document that has been the source of a pack of lies told by the Amazon Defense Coalition, and its spokesperson Karen...
[Translate] Dr. Ann Maest, a managing scientist at Straus Consulting and aide to Steve Donziger, lead plaintiff’s lawyer in the Chevron Ecuador case, is the focus of the most recent attempt to spin the fraudulent lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador in a way that would gain millions for the plaintiffs lawyers and associates – and Dr. Ann Maest is apparently...
[Translate] The “40 Chevron Shareholders” who are asking for a settlement in the Chevron – Ecuador case are doing so only out of greed; such a deal would make some of them rich, and certainly one of their key associates. Amazon Watch and the Rainforest Action Network have taken to blogs and press releases, calling for a settlement, but acting...
