EXPOSED

I blogged a few days ago about Chevron’s own lawyer admitting under oath that Chevron has been lying about so-called “remediation” agreement signed by the Ecuadorian government and using it to avoid paying for the environmental disaster Texaco caused. The Chevron Pit posted some of Perez Pallares’ statements which contradict Chevron’s main defense argument.

The Truth Always Comes Out

Chevron has been misleading the news media and the US courts about the so-called remediation agreement signed in 1995 by Texaco and the government of Ecuador.

Chevron wants us to believe the agreement releases it from all liability in the lawsuit, but the truth is, it doesn’t. The agreement only applies to government claims, and Chevron’s own attorney said so. Perez Pallares admitted under oath that the release is not valid in this case. Making Chevron look even worse is the fact that Perez Pallares is the lawyer who negotiated and signed the release for Chevron.

The Chevron Pit writes in more detail about Chevron's inability to keep its story straight.

Atacapi 5- One of many Chevron's dirty secrets

Chevron needs to stop using the 1995 remediation agreement between Texaco and the Ecuadorian government as its defense. It is useless!!!! It required Texaco to clean up its oil pits but it has never been done.

The Chevron Pit just posted a chart showing that the oil sites Texaco said it remediated still show illegal levels of toxins.

http://thechevronpit.blogspot.com/2010/03/next-time-chevron-tells-you-texaco.html

Throwing some dirt on the top does not count as clean up!

Dirt laden with oil, dug only three inches deep from the pit at the well site, Atacapi 5

Chevron's lobbying campaign backfires.

A few days ago KENNETH VOGEL of Politico wrote an interesting article on how Chevron’s fallacious defense strategy is bringing the oil giant down.

Here’s the link for the article: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29560.html

With what seems to be unlimited financial resources, Chevron is having really hard time trying to defend itself. A while ago, as a response to CBS’s 60 Minutes, Chevron released a video showing Chevron’s side of the story. The oil giant was trying to get its point across but made the mistake of trying to fool people into believing it was a real news report. That was not taken well by the viewers.

A few months later Chevron took it even further and released videos of two men offering a bribe to the Ecuadorian judge. The problem...those recordings were made by a convicted felon and a Chevron contractor and the judge never accepted the bribe! Chevron claims it had no knowledge of the videos being made, but it seems completely unbelievable. Again, the public was misled.

Chevron fought for a very long time to have the case moved to Ecuador. Now, as we’re getting close to a ruling from the Ecuadorian court, Chevron is getting desperate.

As I mentioned in my last post, Chevron is trying to have Ecuador’s trading preferences taken away for supposedly not acting in accordance with the 1995 remediation agreement. The fact that it is Texaco that did not fulfill the main requirement of the agreement is ignored. Testing on samples from the waste pits prove that there was no clean up. The sites that were supposed to be remediated are as toxic as the ones that have never been touched. (See the list in my post form Nov 7th.) This itself makes the agreement invalid.

Chevron can afford to hire the best people in the business to improve its image but it seems like every step they take ends up making them look as guilty as they really are.

For more detail see: http://thechevronpit.blogspot.com