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CHEVRON'S FRAUD IN THE WORDS OF THE ECUADORIAN GOVERNMENT

Excerpts taken from Ecuadorian Government motion filed in a U.S. federal court accusing Chevron of fraud in its suppoed "clean-up" operation of the massive pollution it caused in Ecuador's rainforest during the period of its operations in the country.


 "ChevronTexaco Corporation and Texaco Petroleum Company (together, "Defendants"), in order to assert an additional affirmative defense, namely, that the 1995 Settlement Agreement and the 1998 Release (collectively, the "Agreements") are void, unenforceable and subject to rescission because induced by Defendants' fraudulent misrepresentations, all as more specifically set forth in Plaintiffs' accompanying papers".
(page 1 of Motion - see below)

"Defendants, through intentional or negligent material misrepresentations of fact, fraudulently or negligently induced Plaintiffs to sign the Agreements ... Defendants, inter alia, presented to Plaintiffs false and misleading information that defendants had a duty to disclose, but failed to do so. Defendants did so for the purpose of inducing Plaintiffs to execute the Agreements, and Plaintiffs reasonably relied to their detriment on this misleading information".
(page 3 of Memo of Law - see below)

"Plaintiffs consequently agreed to a remediation plan proposed by Defendants that was hopelessly insufficient, in that it failed to disclose numerous unremediated toxic sites. While Defendants identified 137 unlined toxic pits for which it promised remediation, it failed to disclose more than 100 others—and instead took affirmative steps to conceal their very existence from Plaintiffs. Evidence before the court in the Ecuador Action discloses that Defendants covered the surface of the unlined toxic “pits” with thousands of pounds of soil or “fill,” thereby concealing their existence. To this day, these disguised pits are continuing sources of pollution; recent toxicity tests just beneath the surface confirm that no remediation has been performed on them; and the pools of hazardous substances just beneath the surface continuously release into the ground, leak into groundwater and seep into nearby vegetation and surficial waterways".
(page 5 & 6 of Memo of Law - see below)

Motion and Memorandum of Law:

VANITY FAIR
Jungle Law: Politics & Power

"One of the problems with modern society is that it places more importance on things that have a price than on things that have a value. Breathing clean air, for instance, or having clean water in the rivers, or having legal rights—these are things that don't have a price but have a huge value. Oil does have a price, but its value is much less. And sometimes we make the mistake."

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NEW YORK TIMES
   Rainforest Jekyll & Hyde

"The systematic way that they disposed of toxic waste in Ecuador was to dump it into open-air pits that they dug out of the jungle soil, or directly into rivers, streams and swamps in one of the most delicate ecosystems on the planet"

Myths QA 20SEP06.pdf (55.70 KB)
 
Does Chevron respect the law and human rights in Ecuador? You decide.  On its website Chevron pledges to “conduct business in a socially responsible and ethical manner” and “to respect the communities” where it operates.  But Chevron’s defense in the historic environmental trial in Ecuador’s rainforest (“Lago trial”) – where damages could be in the billions of dollars – can hardly be considered “ethical” or respectful of human rights.

Purveyors of Chevron's Fraud

Rodrigo PEREZ PALLARES

"Children all over the world get cancer"

Rodrigo PEREZ PALLARES

CHEVRON ATTORNEY WHO SIGNED FRAUDULENT CLEAN-UP AGREEMENT ON THE OIL GIANT´S BEHALF THEREBY SELLING OUT THE HEALTH OF HIS OWN PEOPLE. SAYS THAT: "CHILDREN ALL OVER THE WORLD GET CANCER."