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03/15/21
Chevron Trying to ‘Criminalize Human Rights Lawyer’ Who Beat Oil Giant in Court
Ten years ago, Chevron was ordered to pay $18 billion for dumping 70 billion liters of toxic waste into the Amazon. The company hasn’t paid a dime, but instead has spent the past decade trying to take down the environmental lawyer who helped bring the landmark case.
By Democracy Now!
Decades of reckless oil drilling by Chevron have destroyed 1,700 square miles of land in the Ecuadorian Amazon, but the company has refused to pay for the damage or clean up the land, despite losing a lawsuit 10 years ago, when Ecuador’s Supreme Court ordered the oil giant to pay $18 billion on behalf of 30,000 Amazonian Indigenous people.
Instead of cleaning up the damage, Chevron has spent the past decade waging an unprecedented legal battle to avoid paying for the environmental destruction, while also trying to take down the environmental lawyer Steven Donziger,…More