Black Goop Everywhere User ID: 996563 United States 06/08/2010 08:43 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | While BP is Largest Spill in U.S., Chevron's Ecuador Disaster is Largest in World While BP is Largest Spill in U.S., Chevron's Ecuador Disaster is Largest in World. Chevron Admits Dumping at Least 16 Billion Gallons of Toxic Waste into Rainforest.As the nation remains riveted on the tragic BP spill unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, Chevron still holds the record for creating the world's largest oil-related contamination and it happened deliberately in the populated Amazon rainforest in an even more sensitive ecosystem than the marshes of Louisiana. Chevron's illegal oil-related dumping is at the root of a class action lawsuit in Ecuador where the oil giant now faces more than $27 billion in damages for poisoning an area the size of Rhode Island with 18.5 billion gallons of toxic "produced water," or more than 474 times the amount of contamination estimated to have been spilled in the Gulf of Mexico tragedy, according to calculations made by representatives of the plaintiffs. Chevron's contamination has decimated the traditional lifestyles of five indigenous groups in the area, and one group has disappeared, according to the lawsuit. The pollution occurred when Texaco (now owned by Chevron) was the exclusive operator of a large oil concession in the rainforest from 1964 to 1990. A 17-year trial against Chevron taking place in Ecuador's courts – moved there from U.S. federal court in 2002 at Chevron's request – is expected to end later this year. Chevron has declared the trial court is "biased" against it and has announced it will not pay any adverse judgment. The plaintiffs in the trial are tens of thousands of rainforest residents, including the surviving members of indigenous groups called the Secoya, Cofan, Siona, Huarani, and Kichwa. These are the facts of Chevron's dumping in the Amazon and how it compares to the BP spill in the Gulf: [ link to upsidedownworld.org] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 994571 United States 06/08/2010 08:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: While BP is Largest Spill in U.S., Chevron's Ecuador Disaster is Largest in World you act like the gulf leak is over
the relief well could fail too you know |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 996563 United States 06/08/2010 08:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: While BP is Largest Spill in U.S., Chevron's Ecuador Disaster is Largest in World you act like the gulf leak is over
the relief well could fail too you know
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 994571Chevron's still dumping oil in Ecuador too. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 909152 United States 06/08/2010 08:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: While BP is Largest Spill in U.S., Chevron's Ecuador Disaster is Largest in World dam never heard of that!Human's it seems are like rat's spreding the black death not all human's but enough of them to decimate the planet |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 963695 Canada 06/08/2010 09:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: While BP is Largest Spill in U.S., Chevron's Ecuador Disaster is Largest in World We have absolutely no clue how much oil has spilled in the Gulf. It could already be 200 million gallons by the upper estimates. |
Anna User ID: 997200 United States 06/08/2010 07:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: While BP is Largest Spill in U.S., Chevron's Ecuador Disaster is Largest in World To learn more about the environmental disaster in Ecuador, visit: [ link to thechevronpit.blogspot.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 914422 United States 06/08/2010 07:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: While BP is Largest Spill in U.S., Chevron's Ecuador Disaster is Largest in World Never buying gas from Chevron again. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 987302 United States 06/08/2010 07:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: While BP is Largest Spill in U.S., Chevron's Ecuador Disaster is Largest in World OP = BP sympathizer.
get a rope... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 875664 United States 06/08/2010 07:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: While BP is Largest Spill in U.S., Chevron's Ecuador Disaster is Largest in World Were do you think they are dumping the skimmed oil? Same place, they already paid for it once. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 985286 United States 06/08/2010 07:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: While BP is Largest Spill in U.S., Chevron's Ecuador Disaster is Largest in World
A 17-year trial against Chevron taking place in Ecuador's courts – moved there from U.S. federal court in 2002 at Chevron's request – is expected to end later this year. Chevron has declared the trial court is "biased" against it and has announced it will not pay any adverse judgment. Quoting: Black Goop Everywhere 996563In other words Chevron is above the law. Just think the Federal Gov of the USA can confincate your house if they find an ounce of cocaine in it... or send the sherriff to forclosure on your property for tax evasion, yet, here a big USA based multi-national corporation, thumbs its nose and dropps its pants an moons the American legal system --- They are rich enough, give them exactly one day to ship the payment to Ecauador in GOLD... or the next day seize all Chervon's assets worldwide, and just give them to Ecuador to do with as it please. Chevron is placing itself above the law. No wonder BP thinks it too can get away with shit, they too believe they are above American Law.. or perhaps these companies Own the Law? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 898092 United States 06/08/2010 07:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: While BP is Largest Spill in U.S., Chevron's Ecuador Disaster is Largest in World We have absolutely no clue how much oil has spilled in the Gulf. It could already be 200 million gallons by the upper estimates.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 963695those are the conservative estimates. |
Jonesy
User ID: 991781 United States 06/08/2010 07:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: While BP is Largest Spill in U.S., Chevron's Ecuador Disaster is Largest in World We have absolutely no clue how much oil has spilled in the Gulf. It could already be 200 million gallons by the upper estimates.
those are the conservative estimates.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 898092exactly... show me a video of ecuador spewing shit out like the gulf is Si vis pacem, para bellum |