A heartfelt message from the Amazon rainforest communities in Ecuador to new
Chevron CEO John Watson: "We don't want to continue dying of cancer." This video message appeals for Chevron to
clean up its massive contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon that has devastated the environment and continues to
cause widespread cancer, birth defects, and other ailments.
Chevron operated an oil concession in Ecuador's rainforest from 1964 to
1992. The company admits during this time that it dumped 18 billion gallons of toxic waste in an area that was home
to six indigenous nationalities -- one of which is now extinct. For the last four decades, Chevron has treated
Ecuador as an image problem to be managed rather than a humanitarian crisis that compels a compassionate and real
solution.
When one connects Chevron's dots in Ecuador, what emerges is a
coordinated series of frauds marked by misinformation designed to deceive courts, the public, shareholders, and the
financial markets. The purpose of this scheme is to avoid paying the cost of a real cleanup, and it matters not
that vulnerable rainforest peoples -- among them thousands of children -- have died or suffer grievously as a
result.
ChevronTexaco:
Clean Up Ecuador
(TV ad narrated by Cary Elwes)
Visit www.chevron-toxico.com to learn more and take
action.
FOX: Chevron Must Cleanup
Massive
Contamination in Ecuador
Joseph Kohn, lawyer for the
plaintiffs in the historic case against Chevron for environmental contamination in Ecuador, explains why the
company may finally have to pay for its actions at a cost estimated at between 8 and 16 billion
dollars.
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