#stevendonziger

fionag11@sysad.org

"While many in the United States are focused on the political drama of recent weeks, our precious planet continues to burn up. We just recorded the hottest day ever recorded on earth in the 40 years such data has been collected...The hard truth is that oil and gas companies simply have no incentive to slow down. " #climatechange #chevron #StevenDonziger
https://stevendonziger.substack.com/p/we-just-had-the-hottest-day-in-world

tord_dellsen@diasp.eu

#StevenDonziger #DeclassifiedUK #intellectuals #murder #Gaza #genocide

https://twitter.com/SDonziger/status/1733857306008244709

escheche@diasp.org
ramil_rodaje@diasp.org

How Chevron Polluted the Amazon and Fought Environmental Lawyer Steven Donziger

https://truthout.org/articles/how-chevron-polluted-the-amazon-and-fought-environmental-lawyer-steven-donziger/

Decades ago, the U.S.-based petroleum corporation Texaco devastated Lago Agrio in the Ecuadorian Amazon with pollution, in what came to be known as “the Amazon Chernobyl.” It resulted in roughly 1,000 carcinogenic waste pits and 16 billion gallons of toxic wastewater dumped into pristine rivers. Among local people who drank and bathed in these waters, cancers and miscarriages skyrocketed. Represented by Steven Donziger, Indigenous peoples sued the company, which had been bought by Chevron in 2000, and won over $9 billion. Chevron, however, ignored the Ecuadorian courts and took its case to New York, where it found a friendly judge, amenable to its aim of not paying and of destroying Donziger. Contacted for comment, Chevron noted it paid roughly $40 million for environmental remediation and accused Donziger of being a disbarred racketeer convicted of criminal contempt. Details provided by Donziger, however, tell a different tale altogether.

#environment #Chevron #Ecuador #StevenDonziger #Amazon #Amazonia #Truthout

escheche@diasp.org
sylviaj@joindiaspora.com