Chevron Inserts Big Foot Into Big Mouth

The Chevron Pit put together some of the "darndest things" Chevron's lawyers have said about its contamination of the Ecuadorian rainforest. Looks like Chevron has a habit of inserting its big foot into its big mouth. After reading them I can't help but wonder whether they even realize how desperate and corrupt they sound. Read them and you'll know what I mean.

Finally Chevron Speaks Truth With Freudian Slip

Ricardo Reis Veiga (Managing Counsel, Chevron Latin America)

Chevron’s Managing Counsel for Latin America finally speaks truth about what Texaco did and did not do in Ecuador. Chevron bought Texaco in 2001 and, with the purchase, acquired a potential $27 billion liability resulting from an oil contamination lawsuit filed by indigenous groups in Ecuador. Texaco has admitted to dumping over 18 billion gallons of oil and toxic water into the rainforest from 1964 to 1990. Check out this blog: http://livinnthebigtime.blogspot.com/2010/02/chevrons-8-steps-ricardo-reis-veiga.html

Chevron's General Counsel reduced to taking out company's trash

Hewitt Pate

If I’m understanding this interesting blog at The Chevron Pit correctly, it means having Chevron’s General Counsel Hewitt Pate roll out a public charge that the court-appointed expert in the contamination lawsuit against Chevron is corrupt is like making President Obama take out his own trash every morning. Speaking of trash, Pate’s announcement stinks to high heaven. Read more here: http://www.thechevronpit.blogspot.com/com