Message from Ecuador to Chevron CEO John Watson

Thanks 'David G Man' for being so kind as to trot out Chevron's lawyers' talking points on this case – it provides useful insight for readers new to the issue. 1) The people suing Chevron and appealing for help never "signed off" on anything and numerous inspections of "remediated" areas show the clean-up to have left behind massive amounts of contamination, 2) Ecuador is a poor country and many people are frustrated that the succession of governments have not been able to provide more for their people but this has no bearing on Chevron's responsibility for contaminated their rainforest communities, 3) Petroecuador has polluted, yes, but the substandard infrastructure Texaco built and operated until they left is a major reason, and Petroecuador's current operating standard is far better than Texaco's decades of deliberate dumping. 4) And no, Chevron has not thoroughly debunked the cancer claims and there has been lots of medical evidence. But Chevron likes to point to junk science and the fact that this poor rainforest region's few and poorly-equipped medical centers aren't able to produce medical records of the sort that Chevron executives would receive from their doctors in California. Poor sanitation doesn't cause cancer. Read more: www.ChevronToxico.com