The recent speech by Chevron General Counsel Hewitt Pate on the Ecuador environmental case ["Chevron GC: 'I'm Confident We're Right' in Epic Case," Daily Report, Dec. 11, 2014] omits critical facts related to the company’s $9.5 billion liability. Mr. Pate fails to explain that Chevron’s “lifetime of litigation” strategy in Ecuador seeks to evade a court order that the company remediate a horrendous ecological disaster that is harming thousands of vulnerable people.
Beginning in the 1960s, Chevron (operating through Texaco) engaged in decades of drilling and waste disposal practices in Ecuador that ravaged the pristine rainforest environment and decimated five indigenous groups.
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