Targeted With Probably the Most Vicious Corporate Counterattack in American History
If you believe in voting with your wallet and your conscience, you’ll want to stay as far as possible from any Chevron gasoline station. None of the Big Oil companies is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and Exxon Mobil’s a close second for the winner of the “most bastardly corporation of the last 50 years” award, but Chevron gets my vote.
From Esquire:
Steven Donziger (pictured) is a human rights lawyer who, for more than 27 years, has represented the Indigenous peoples and rural farmers of Ecuador against Texaco—since acquired by Chevron—which was accused of dumping at least 16 billion gallons of toxic waste into the area of the Amazon rainforest in which they live. Cancer is now highly prevalent in the local population. Some have called it the “Amazon Chernobyl.” They first filed suit in New York in 1993, but Texaco lobbied, successfully, to move the proceedings to Ecuador. In 2011, the team of Ecuadorian lawyers Donziger worked with won the case, and Chevron was ultimately ordered to pay $9.8 billion.
But for Donziger, that was nowhere near the end.
