Chevron Corp. blasted for environmental, rights abuses in Ecuador, Nigeria and Myanmar

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Published: Thursday, May 29, 2008

Chevron Corp. blasted for environmental, rights abuses in Ecuador, Nigeria and Myanmar

Associated Press

SAN RAMON, Calif. -- Chevron Corp. Chief Executive David O'Reilly faced intense criticism from environmentalists and human-rights advocates who detailed their grievances at the company's annual shareholders meeting Wednesday.

Activists took advantage of the gathering at Chevron headquarters in San Ramon to blast Chevron during the meeting for alleged environmental and human-rights abuses in Ecuador, Nigeria and Myanmar. Outside, protesters dressed in white protective suits and waved broom-shaped "Clean Up Chevron" signs at the company's front entrance.

Despite the vocal complaints, Chevron shareholders soundly rejected six resolutions that would create new company policies on human rights and environmental protection.

In Ecuador, Chevron faces a multibillion-dollar lawsuit by 30,000 jungle settlers and Indians who allege the company failed to clean up billions of gallons of toxic wastewater produced by Texaco Petroleum Co., which Chevron acquired in 2001.

At Wednesday's meeting, activist Luis Yanza told O'Reilly that the contamination has poisoned the land and sickened thousands of people who live in the Ecuadorean Amazon.



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1. So what! Chevron will hire Mercs and kill them all.

They laugh at US...because we're powerless without money. And they're making damn sure we're all penniless.