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Nov 17, 2008 -- Colombian Indigenous Travel to New York to Urge Investors Not to Buy Shares of Colombian State Oil Company Ecopetrol ...
U’wa leaders spoke with representatives of JP Morgan Chase and potential investors to voice concerns over Ecopetrol’s activity on their ancestral land
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| Washington D.C. — Two leaders of Colombia’s U’wa community traveled to New York City last week to meet with investment firms, urging them not to buy shares of the Colombian state oil company Ecopetrol. The U’wa leaders spoke with representatives of JPMorgan Chase to voice their concerns over the bank’s support for sale of Ecopetrol stock on the NY Stock Exchange.
In an open letter to JP Morga...
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Nov 11, 2008 -- Amazon Watch’s Statement on Talisman’s Oil Project in the Peruvian Amazon...
Talisman Urged to Suspend Operations in Block 64 Pending Resolution of Conflict with Indigenous Communities
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| (San Francisco, CA)—Amazon Watch issues this statement following a telephone meeting yesterday with officials from the Calgary-based Talisman Energy. The meeting was held to discuss the growing controversy surrounding the company’s activities in Achuar peoples’ territory in Northern Peruvian Amazon, in an area known as block 64.
During the meeting with Talisman officials, Amazon Watch raised c...
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Oct 27, 2008 -- Amazon Defense Coalition: High-Stakes Trial in San Francisco Focuses Attention on Chevron’s Growing Human Rights Problems Around Globe...
Oil Giant Seems Increasingly Out of Step with Industry Rivals with Accusations It Helped Orchestrate Deaths of Nigerian Villagers
Hiring of Bush Ad
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| SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Chevron is embarking today on a high stakes defense in U.S. federal court against charges that it helped orchestrate the killing of two Nigerian villagers at a time when its corporate legal department is under mounting pressure for disregarding human rights issues, an environmental group said today.
Chevron’s recent high-profile hiring of William J. Haynes, a for...
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Oct 24, 2008 -- Chevron Asked To Disclose Relationship to Pat Murphy...
Environmental Group Asserts Oil Giant Paying Writers to Pose As Journalists as Part of Public Relations Campaign
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| San Francisco (October 24) – The environmental group Amazon Watch today called on Chevron and the San Francisco-based writer Pat Murphy to divulge their financial relationship in light of disclosures that Murphy’s website accepts fees for editorial control of news articles written under Murphy’s byline.
“Chevron’s public relations office and Pat Murphy appear to be engaged in an online decepti...
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Oct 17, 2008 -- Amazon Watch & Amazon Defense Coalition Win Business Ethics Award For Holding Chevron Accountable for Oil Contamination in Ecuador...
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| San Francisco, CA – Amazon Watch and the Amazon Defense Coalition said today their international campaign to hold Chevron accountable for extensive oil contamination in the Ecuadorian rainforest has received the top Business Ethics Network's BENNY Award for outstanding achievement in advancing corporate ethics. The BENNY award is the third major honor awarded because of the campaign's efforts to c...
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Oct 15, 2008 -- Texaco Ordered Destruction of Oil Spill Documents...
Internal Company Memo Raises More Questions about Texaco's Operations in Amazon Rainforest
Chevron Now Faces $16 Billion Liability and Indictments
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| Quito, Ecuador – Texaco, now owned by Chevron, ordered its employees to destroy reports documenting oil spills in the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador where the company is now the subject of a $16.3 billion potential liability in a civil lawsuit, according to an internal company memo released today by the group representing plaintiffs in the case.
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Oct 13, 2008 -- U'wa Indigenous Community Peacefully Occupies Ecopetrol's Gibraltar Platform to Demand Cancellation of Oil Project...
1,000 U'wa Participate in 3-Day Action Despite Warnings and Intimidation Attempts by Military
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| Bogotá, Colombia — Nearly one thousand members of the U’wa indigenous people from the cloud forests of northeastern Colombia participated in a historic march and peaceful occupation of Ecopetrol’s oil platform in protest of oil project on their sacred ancestral lands. The demonstration, which began Saturday and culminated peacefully today, coincided with what is officially called “Columbus Day” a...
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Oct 07, 2008 -- Chevron Loses Another Round In Legal Battle Over Ecuador Rainforest Contamination...
U.S. Federal Appeals Court Rejects Attempt to Shift Liability
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| New York, New York – A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York today denied an attempt by Chevron to shift its multi-billion dollar liability to Ecuador's government for the massive environmental contamination it caused in the Amazon rainforest.
The unanimous panel found that Chevron's claim was "without merit".
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Oct 03, 2008 -- Chevron Loses Major Lobbying Battle In Congress Over Ecuador Trade Benefits
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McCain Finance Chair Had Led Campaign -- Effort to Quash Claims of Indigenous Tribes Fails
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| Washington -- Chevron has lost a critical lobbying battle in Congress in its effort to escape a $16.3 billion liability in Ecuador stemming from a landmark environmental case, said Amazonian residents and their lawyers engaged in a court battle with the company.
Despite hiring a team of A-list Washington insiders – including Wayne Berman, John McCain's national finance chairman and former Senat...
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Sep 18, 2008 -- Investors Urged not to Buy Ecopetrol Shares on NYSE over Human Rights Concerns...
Colombian Oil Company Violates Indigenous Rights, Industry Human Rights Benchmarks
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| See Letter to JP Morgan and Industry Analysts regarding Ecopetrol IPO: http://www.amazonwatch.org/newsroom/view_news.php?id=1647
New York, N.Y. — Investors were urged today not to buy Ecopetrol shares, expected to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, over concerns about the Colombian state-oil company's inadequate commitment to corporate social responsibility and mishandling of...
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