New Year's Resolutions: Big Oil or Big Lies? You decide...

New Years is a natural time to look for improvement. Here we are, faced with a brand new clean slate, so to speak – and nothing could be more organic than a little focused soul searching. It’s good to look for...

'Avatar': The plot Chevron knows all too well.

James Cameron has been really turning up the environmental rally cries lately. He is going full speed ahead in turning 'Avatar' into a catalyst for environmental activism. In a recent interview with MTV news...

Will New Chevron CEO John Watson do what's right to Ecuador?

Chevron has a new boss man, and in an ironic kick in the pants Chevron’s new CEO John Watson is the very man that orchestrated Chevron’s takeover of Texaco, and with it the 18 billion gallons of toxic waste water and 17 million gallons of crude oil deliberately dumped in...

Green living-What do we consider a GREEN gas station

Yesterday, I pull into a gas station across the street from a Chevron station and notice the price per gallon is 30 cents less than Chevron. I noticed both stations had big gas tankers, the one at Chevron, of course, had the logo of Chevron. The truck at my station had no...

Chevron Gets No Love From Andy Rooney

Chevron’s Ecuador problem forces Andy Rooney to drop the H-bomb… something he really, really, hates to do. WATCH IT HERE We love Andy Rooney and he gets mad at a lot of things (like iphones or Ali G). But now...

Fatal Tower Block Fire Blamed On TV Fault!! Breaking News

"Fatal Tower Block Fire Blamed On TV Fault " "A fire which killed six people in a tower block was started by an electrical fault in an old television, police have confirmed." " The portable TV set, which...

Should he be hanged? Sir, mujhe mera gunaah kabool hai’

Kasab has accepted his crime. will it be short sighted to hang him???The real culprits are in Pakistan. Therefore Kasab should get life imprisonment. He will be more useful to India in the long run.is a 4 and half...

Ecuador: Chevron Named in $27 Billion Contamination Case

Chevron is facing a $27 billion bill in an environmental contamination case involving dumping of toxic waste into Amazon waterways.  Chevron lawyers and former Ecuadorian offiicials face fraud charges over the...

What Does Allen Stanford Have in Common with Anti-Chevron Group?

Just when I thought things couldn’t get any shadier, I’ve learned that the lobbyist now representing the Amazon Defense Coalition (via Kohn Swift & Graf, P.C.) in its $27 billion lawsuit against San Ramon,...

Chevron Lawsuit Post Highlighted at SFGate.com

My latest findings related to the Amazon Defense Coalition’s flimsy lawsuit against Chevron Corporation in Ecuador are highlighted in a report on the San Francisco Chronicle’s SFGate.com blog this morning....

What Will Be The Outcome of Lawsuit Against Chevron in Ecuador?

Life in the Oriente Region of Ecuador is full of danger, mystery and intrigue.  Located along the border with Colombia in the northeast part of the country, the region is home to ancient people groups who depend largely upon the resources of the Amazon River basin for...

NY Freedom of Information Law Put to Test (UPDATED!)

Barely three weeks after New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, sent an inflammatory and provocative letter to Chevron Corporation’s David J. O’Reilly, I sent a communication of my own. To...

Did Amazon Defense Coalition Violate Terms of Logan Act?

I’m not a lawyer and I don’t play one on television, but it strikes me that leaders of the Amazon Defense Coalition may have violated terms of the Logan Act as they cozied up to leaders of the Ecuadoran...

Following the Money Difficult in Ecuador Lawsuit

Ask any investigative reporter how best to get to the heart of any controversial issue, and he’ll say, “Follow the money.”  Doing that has been difficult, however, when it comes to the Amazon Defense...

‘No Good Deed Goes Unpunished’ (Part 2 of 2)

“You have a new form of business now for trial lawyers which is that they now go to foreign locations and try to root up and play off plaintiffs under circumstances under which legal systems are less...

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