Chevron en el mundo

2. CHEVRON:
a company
ubiquitous
in the world

3. Chevron is present everywhere in the world
Under this name or the name of one of its subsidiaries, it extracts natural resources and sells them in 37
countries. It participates in oil, gas or mining exploitation projects in several other countries that are not in
their official appearances as in the Republic of Iraq. It
also sells over 150 products all around the globe.
In several of the countries where it exploits natural resources, the people of the concerned areas have denounced irresponsible practices. Sometimes Chevron
was convicted, sometimes not. And the complaints
from the affected citizens still stand.
In Ecuador, Chevron applies a strategy of repeated lies
avoiding its obvious responsibility for the contamination of the Amazon.
Discover the reality of the presence of Chevron in the
world. Learn the TRUTH about the environmental crime in Ecuador. And let’s denounce Chevron together!

4. No continent escape
Alaska
California
Mississippi
Nigeria
Ecuador
Angola
Peru
Brazil
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Kazakhstan
Philippines
Thailand
Indonesia

6. From several countries,
they denounce CHEVRON
for environmental damage

7. Same causes, same effects
Thousands of citizens in several countries around the world
accuse Chevron of environmental damage.
They denounce devastation of agriculture, fishing, destruction of rivers and vital water sources for the communities, as well as high levels of poison in the air.
Many of them agree that Chevron not only does not assume its responsibility, but also denies the environmental
damage caused where it exploits the natural resources.
Below you will find some testimonials from these citizens.

8. Testimonials:
How can CHEVRON continue to deny?
“
The water has been contaminated during a seismic task in
the area when they were exploring
in search of unconventional gas.
”
Po l a n d
“
This is what Chevron has
left here in the Amazon. Now, six
years later, look: this is one of the
three waste lakes that were made
by Texaco-Chevron. This is the closest one. But it is only one of the
nearly thousands lakes of crude
oil.
”
Angola
Pe r u
“
When there are Chevron
reports, which are not very common, it never takes responsibility,
it blames other companies.”
Richmond, USA – “We are tired of
Chevron contaminating the city of
Richmond, the atmosphere and
the entire planet
”

9. “
Nous en avons assez que
Chevron contamine la ville de Richmond, l’atmosphère et la planète entière.
”
Richmond
USA
“
Nigéria
In the first place, the environment has been devastated;
agriculture and fishing for the life
of the community have been affected by the daily oil spills. Oil was
spilled on farming land, it was poured in the rivers, in the streams,
and these water sources are the
sustenance of many communities
in the Delta region in Nigeria.
”
“
USA
This is an international
struggle and by uniting the people of Ecuador through the published announcement today in full
page of the newspaper, it is a very
powerful message and Chevron
will know, has to know, that this is
serious.
”

10. The voice of truth
was heard in the
UN
On September 24th at the headquarters of the United Nations in
New York, the Ecuadorian government, through the voice of its Minister of Foreign Affairs, Economist Ricardo Patiño Aroca, made
the TRUTH about the environmental
damage caused by Chevron-Texaco in
Ecuador known. A former employee of
Texaco was invited to give his testimony
in this regard. We invite you to read it.
Foreign Minister, Ricardo Patiño

11. Extracts from the testimony before the
UN of José Medardo Shingre, a citizen
affected by Chevron.
“
I am a farmer who lives in the
Ecuadorian Amazon, more specifically
in the region and province of Orellana.
What I am about to mention is nothing
but the truth and simply the truth.
Texaco, today Chevron, operated with
unconvincing practices that are costing
us today not only a battle in the cultural
and social fields.
[…]
Then we realized that they created a
company called “Texpet”, Texaco. And
they did not want to recognize that this
company belonged to them but they
paid us our salaries as Texaco. Thus, in
the decades of, especially the 70s and
80s and until they left in the 90s, there
were many abuses, not only to human
health, but to the people themselves,
because we were ruled by them and not
by the authorities.
[…]
We do not want money, we do not want
cash, we only want two things, gentlemen: we want water, because it is not
possible to take water in the area. It is
contaminated. Even if the local authorities want to give us water, they cannot,
everything is contaminated, even the air.
We want water and justice, nothing else.
Justice.
Because today not even farming is working. What is it worth to have calloused
hands. But agriculture does not give us
what it used to. Our families get sick all
the time and while this insane practice
of Chevron, formerly Texaco, continues,
nothing will be good.
[…]
But they were the ones giving everyone
orders, not only to Ecuadorians working
there, but to all the people who came
from other countries. Pardon my redundancy, and today they want us to pay all
the irresponsibility of this company? It
is not fair. It is not justice. I repeat: we
want water and justice, not money. We
want a social and environmental remediation.
[…]
”
You can find the entire testimonial at:
www.chevroncontamina.ec

12. CHEVRON:
The strategy
of lying
Chevron lies systematically about the
environmental damage caused by Texaco in Ecuador.

13. “
”
We are telling the truth.
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa launches the international campaign
“The Dirty Hand of CHEVRON”
Visit our website:
w w w. c h e v r o n c o n t a m i n a . e c
Chevron Contamina
@ChevronContamin

14. IT LIES ABOUT THE RESPONSIBILITY
OF CHEVRON-TEXACO
TO BLAME OTHERS
One of Chevron’s strategies is declaring that the oil company Petroecuador is responsible for the environmental damage caused by
Texaco. There are plenty of witnesses of the crime. Chevron does
not hesitate to attack President Rafael Correa saying….
Chevron says: “President Correa provided a distorted and inaccurate account of the history of these oil fields
(the wells of Lago Agrio) and who is
responsible for any environmental
impact.”
It’s a lie! Texaco was the sole operator of oil exploitation in the Amazon region until 1990. It carelessly
poured formation water (with oil
residues and other toxic waste) into
the Amazon region. It clearly had to
undertake remediation of the environmental catastrophe caused by its
actions. Chevron-Texaco is obviously
responsible for the environmental
damage caused in the region. There
are plenty of witnesses and evidence.
Chevron says: “Any environmental
impact in the region is the sole and
full responsibility of Petroecuador, a
fact that the authorities of Ecuador
have recognized publicly and privately on several occasions”.
It’s a lie! The authorities of Ecuador
have never “admitted” such a thing.
It is a distortion of the facts. The contamination denied by Chevron is a direct result of Texaco’s oil exploitation
and of a poor remediation technique
that is far from fulfilling its objective
and continues to cause harm to the
people and the environment

15. Chevron says : “Any environmental
impact on the extinct consortium
area is exclusive to Petroecuador,
which for more than 20 years, continues to operate here”.
It’s a lie! TTexaco drilled and operated 356 oil wells and opened 1.000
pits without any type of recoating.
Texaco threw all kinds of waste in
them, which caused immeasurable environmental damage. The US
Company did not apply any effective
remediation techniques, not even for
the 162 pools that they promised to
clean. The damage is still visible, as
shown by President Correa, who put
his hand into well AG-4 on Tuesday,
September 17.Up until today pools
are still being discovered that were
being kept hidden by Chevron-Texaco instead of remediated, which was
in fact required.
CHEVRON LIES ABOUT THE TEXT
OF A PARTIAL ARBITRATION!
On September the 17th, 2013, the
Permanent Court of Arbitration at
the Hague yielded a partial award on
the “Chevron III” case, the third lawsuit of Chevron against the Ecuadorian State. This award does not refer
to the environmental damage at all.
Despite this…
Chevron says: “The Permanent Court
at the Hague exempts Chevron from its
responsibility for the environmental damage in Ecuador”.
The truth is: With total lack of ethics
and transparency, Chevron says that
the company has been released from
environmental claims in Ecuador, which
is absolutely false. The partial award of
the Court at the Hague does not even
touch the environmental damage issue!
Chevron says: “The Court found that
the Settlement and Release Agreements
that the government of Ecuador entered into with Texaco released Texaco
and its affiliates of any liability for all
public interest or collective environmental claims.”
The truth is: the Court rejected the
argument of the oil company because
this Agreement implicitly contained a
“release of responsibility” clause or indemnity clause that, according to the
multinational company, would hold the
Ecuadorian State responsible for any
costs incurred by Chevron or the effects
of any decision declared against it. In
fact, it is important to remember that
Texaco was never released of its environmental responsibility in Ecuador.
The Deed of Settlement that was signed
in 1998 by the government of Jamil Mahuad released Texaco from any claims
of the Ecuadorian State but not of individual claims. It was not a waiver on
behalf of third parties.

16. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility
Quito - Ecuador
Carrión E1-76 y Av. Diez de Agosto
www.cancilleria.gob.ec
CancilleríaEcuador
@CancilleriaEc