Field Report: Engineers Without Borders Team Inspects ClearWater Systems In Ecuador, Day 4
This is part four of a series. Read part one here, part two here, and part three here. San Pablo San Pablo, about 2 hours upriver by canoe from Cofan…
Field Report: Engineers Without Borders Team Inspects ClearWater Systems In Ecuador, Day 3
This is part three of a series. Read part one here and part two here. Cofan Dureno day 2 After breakfast (white rice and yucca—again!) the women of the community…
Engineers Without Borders Arrives In Ecuador to Help Bring ClearWater to Amazon Communities
In the U.S. we often speak of environmental justice as an idea: a concept that guides our work, a state of ecological equity that we strive toward. But for the…
Why Everyone Should Be Mad About Today’s Chevron Shareholder Meeting
I’ve been working on the Change Chevron campaign full-time for almost two years now, and I have to say: Today’s Chevron shareholder meeting perfectly encapsulates everything that is deeply wrong…
Dignity Incarnate: Emergildo Criollo And The Ecuadoreans Standing Up To Chevron
This morning I accompanied Emergildo Criollo, leader of the Cofan people, from his home in the dusty outskirts of Lago Agrio (the oil camp turned boom town that Texaco founded)…
How Low Can Chevron Go?
How low can Chevron go? It seems the company is determined to find out. Having lost a major environmental lawsuit in both US and Ecuador courts based on the merits…
Chevron’s Kangaroo Court Issues Illegitimate, Unenforceable Ruling
The secret arbitration panel convened by Chevron in Washington, DC last week has issued its ruling — and not surprisingly, the trio of corporate lawyers has found that they have…
We Brought A Kangaroo To Chevron’s Kangaroo Court
Chevron’s kangaroo court is meeting this weekend in a rented room in Washington, DC. We thought they might need an actual kangaroo for the meeting, so we brought one. It…
Why Did Chevron Pay Its “Dirty Tricks Guy” $2.2 Million?
Diego Borja is Chevron’s “dirty tricks guy” — that’s not an allegation, that’s how he once described himself. Recent court documents reveal that Chevron has paid Borja $2.2 million for his…
Great Moments In Stupid Chevron PR
Now that Chevron has been found guilty — again — for intentionally dumping a massive amount of toxic oil waste in the Ecuadorean Amazon, the company has become increasingly desperate…