Chevron Texaco: Ecuador's Black Plague

[Nihilanth1982]

chevron refusing to pay the fine and take responsibility for the damage they've done to ecuador. they're ten times worse than bp.

pay up and take responsibility you deadbeat arrogant american bastards.

[WarmongerWW3]

@Nihilanth1982 No. Ecuador is weaker than 1 American company.

If they insist on it, it'll be time to do another coup d'état >:)

[manfrummt]

Overuse of oil is the problem, not the U.S. or even big corporations. Everyone who uses oil is partially to blame. We need to conserve oil use. Each one of us, from EVERY country. The U.S. is not the only big oil user. And the corporations wouldn't be drilling everywhere if there wasn't such a demand. CONSERVE OIL USE!

[chestypants78]

@manfrummt "The U.S. is not the only big oil user." The US has 3, 4, 5 litre cars, while we in Europe have 1, 1.2, 1.6 litre cars. Gas guzzlers. Everybody knows this.

[Xing500]

I'm in support of this, but please translate things directly.

[robotbugs]

It just a knee jerk action to have to blame US oil company like Texaco. Think about both sides of the story first. I mean look at the video, and the purposeful "product placement" of a texaco barrel in the oil slick.

[robotbugs]

This was caused by Petroecuador not Texaco. Texaco ceased operations in that country in 1992 and the Ecuadorian government signed off on their environmental remediation. This issue is a scam by corrupt Ecuadorian officials trying to screw Texaco after the fact for 15 years of Petroecuador's mess.

[zl1vette427]

Sorry, this is the fault of the Ecuadoran govt....they confiscated private assets and reneged on deals. This lawsuit is nothing but an extortion and shakedown attempt of an American company that employs 100,000 workers. Adios, amigos !

[IsaiahLoupan]

Something I want you too see

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Boycott !

[foxonthetrot]

The animals didnt get any attention whatsoever. They have probably suffered more. 

[pippuz1984]

bastards... I think the world would be much better without the US and all its fucking corporations

[Zecamala1234]

Why don't you guys get all the dirty mud and take to the front of the Texaco and Chevron offices?

Let them feel how it is to have that close to them.

[Zecamala1234]

Why we don't see that on CNN?

It is a shame.

[donsjuand]

@Zecamala1234 Every time we decide to use oil, we decide to line the pockets of these greedy, irresponsible inhumane assholes. Yes, over 20 years it's been going on. Chevron has to pay 9 billion dollars now...too bad it won't fix mother earth...small change.

[lunafringe10]

boycott US now, dont travel there, dont buy their products, Dont use oil, Use solar and other, if you can afford it,

[lunafringe10]

thats nice, but what abt the animals living there? not worth mentioning? for all those with the big messages. The only way to stop this is: get out of your cars, (if you can), stop using oil for heating, stop buying products that contain oil, We didnt need any plastics before, we dont need them now, Stop your mindless living now before your planet, which is the only one, is finished, And outcast those american conglomerates, make them public enemy no 1, avoid buying US products

[chevereEdu]

parece que ahora le a tocado a los propios estados unidos sufrir una contaminacion

[zag921]

is the world blinded? this has been going on for more than 15 years, get the big fat pigs to pay for what they did to all the families and communities living there, and to the beautiful ecuadorian rainforest as well, it hurts to see how things like this continue to happen, yea every organization, countries and whatnot claim to be dedicated to our planets health, seems to me they are just letting this be.

I support McKaylaBurgess´ comment, I´m never going to Texaco/Chevron again.

[VillamayorContinent]

I don't want to see none of these pigs in Ecuador or in any place in Latin America any more, fucking pigs.

[nikki713alf]

MOVE*

[nikki713alf]

i care about the people there. my people. i am ecuadorian and what these money hungry texaco piece of shits are doing is more than fuked up. fuk whatever laws protecting them sorry ass motherfukers. cant they see all the damage and how unjust this situation is to them. they needa move the fuk around, give money to all those ppl & make sure theyre being medically treated fer whatever they had done.

TEXACO MOCE ARouND ALREADT NO ONE WANTS YOU THERE.

[SetoLarry]

esa empresa de mierda esta matando a mi planeta y contaminando al extremo a mi pais vecino! ¬¬

pongan un alto a toda esta basura!!!

[McKaylaBurgess]

Texaco needs to go help clean that crap up. It is just like them doing murder to thousands of indegoius people. I am never-ever going to Texaco again.

[ajk888]

Texaco isn't liable. They have paid the $40 million they were required to under the 1992 agreement. Texaco left Ecuador in 1992 and the mismanagement seen in the video is the responsiblity of Petroecuador, who has operated the fields for the last 15 yeats.

[felipeteran1]

Wrong. Get your facts straight moron. They paid the 40M after the case of Aguinda, which is a pathetic amount in relation to the mess THEY caused with their systems, operations and spilling. PetroEcuador started operating after the mess was made. I am not saying PetroEcuador is ethcial or has had good practices, but they are not responsible for the contamination caused by Texaco.

[oossssssssso]

esta maldita empresa esta matando a mi pais

[GreenSociety42O]

I'd like to see these Standard Oil shitheads get what they deserve- going nose-up into bankruptcy!

[chodykumbra]

wow great investigating!!!!! No assumptions there.

[chodykumbra]

Are you retarded? You see a short clip with a with a background of a oil pipe with fire and you conclude that this back ground somehow means the TWO POINT FIVE MILLION ACRES of the Ecuadorian Amazon contamination was caused by sabotage? Yet not even Chevron Texaco is claiming this.

Chevron admitted that Texaco dumped billions of gallons of toxic water of formation into the Amazon and left hundreds of waste pits which have been meticulously documented by independent experts. Fucking idiot.

[Michael210272]

Your trying to sound intelligent and informed. FAIL. What is your background. Are you an engineer specialising in the oil industry or some fool. Yes, it is just you. EPIC FAIL. go and get an education.

[toisabella]

where are you posters getting the phrase "eco-friendly sabotours?"  seems strange to me that two independent posters can used the same phrase - with a misspelling, at that.

[Tonyred100]

It full of inaccuracies and unsupported conclusions. worthless.

[yandiggles]

motherfuckers

this makes me so mad

i wish we could contaminate all the water supplies of people who work for chevron texaco

show those evil pieces of shit what it feels liketo have ur whole life and community destroyed

fuck imperialism

fuck chevron texaco

fuck nwo

[Plomomedia]

fuck nwo? a new world order is exactly what we need to correct the problem, imho...

[Tonyred100]

Obviously written by someone who flunked out of third grade. Get the facts before making a decision. These video's are so full of inaccuracies it boggles the mind. The government of ecuador caused this pollution, not Texaco

[peterg33]

The Ecuadorian government is to blame, but so is Texaco and America..  You need to read a book called "Confessions of an economic hitman" to understand the situation in South America today and how America operates globally

[toisabella]

wrong. legal liability falls to the consortium leaders - texaco.

[Drek75633]

Chevron is not responsible for what Texaco supposedly did in Ecuador. The lawsuit on Chevron from Ecuador was found inconclusive due to the eco-friendly sabotours false claims and allogations. Get your facts straight before you decide to become so angry about a situation your not involved in.

[toisabella]

found inconclusive? are you just inventing stuff now or would you care to cite your sources? no? shocking.

[Drek75633]

My sources come from Ecuadorian politics and U.S. Supreme court files. So shut the hell up hippie.

[toisabella]

the lawsuit is ongoing. that's a fact. therefore, there can be no "Ecuadorian politics and U.S. Supreme court files" that state that the lawsuit was "found inconclusive." resorting to name calling when you can't come up with facts to back your statements is wastes my time.

[gian776]

Chevron bought a sponsored ad here on youtube and placed their own corrupt and false video. They don't allow comments on the video too. Chevron/Texaco and all oil companies are managed by evil murderers. Put all those exectuvives responsible for this disaster in jail, or better yet, hang them by their toe nails.

[robertronics]

fucking murderers

both the corrupt ecuadorian government and the US corporation CHEVRON are guilty for this natural disaster

open your eyes people!

[dcxsucks]

Fuck Chevron. Bob Eaton, corrupt POS former Chairman of Chrysler responsible for many safety defects and knowingly doing nothing about them is now on the board of directors.

I'm sure they have done their damage but I won't buy Chevron fuel, ONLY Shell (BP) or 76(ConocoPhillips).

For more information about Bob Eaton who is now on the board of Chevron (since 2000), check out /watch?v=dcl3itb1_Ow

[UntitledPanda]

Shell is just as bad. Look into what they did to the Ogoni people in the Niger Delta.

[dcxsucks]

hmmm, I guess Union 76 all the way then? (I know all of the oil companies are screwed up and evil but I'm trying to go for the least screwed up and corrupt).

[trutherauthority]

shell r evil 2

[mindzeye13]

This piece of propaganda is a joke. The Wall Street Journal exposed Amazon Watch and the blood sucker attorneys they team up with to try and extort money from large companies. The attorneys paraded a group of so-called victims into court in San Francisco in Oct 2007 and under cross examination, the Ecuadorian natives all admitted they were being exploited for money. The judge fined the Amazon Watch attorneys for wasting the court's time. Just one small example of the hoax perpetrated by AW.

[csanchez2007]

Your funny, FACT: Experts believe that in Ecuador, Chevron may have created the worst oil-related disaster in the world. Chevron could be charge for Genocide under the International law. Chevron has admitted in the Lago Trial that it dumped more the 18 billions gallons of toxic waste into the part of Ecuador's Amazon from 1964-1992. So Propaganda you say..some needs to stop reading Rupert Murdoch's WALL STREET JOURNAL.

[mindzeye13]

that shows how much you don't know, Sanchez. Chevron never had any operations in Ecuador. Texaco did until 1992. They met all clean up mitigation requirements at at cost of $40M and the Ecuadorian government approved and granted immunity from further responsibility. Chevron later merged with Texaco. PETROECUADOR, the government-owned oil company is responsible for the mess in their own country. They've had over 200 major spill violations in the past 8 years! They just want someone else to pay.

[csanchez2007]

Are you for real?? I mean are you really that caught up on the lies, after lies, after lies of all these Oil companies. FACT: Chevron's practices in Ecuador were illegal and violated industry norms by ALMOST every conceivable measure. The dumping of "toxic water" by Chevron in Ecuador was outlawed in the oil-friendly state of Louisiana in 1942. In 1939, Texas outlawed open-air toxic waste pits of the type Chevron built in Ecuador throughout the 70s and 80s!!!

[taxiture]

mindzeye13, have any proof of what you say?

Why if everything was clear and legal, texaco force the ecuatorian goverment to sign a document granted INMUNITY FOR FURTHER RESPONSABILITIES?

[mindzeye13]

The proof is in the legal documents that were executed by the Ecuadorian government and Texaco. In fact, the Ecuadorian officials even said, quote "Texaco went above and beyond the scope of their responsibilities in remediating the land" that they had been drilling on. In other words, they also spent money cleaning up PETROECUADOR's messes which continue to plague the people and environment of Ecuador to this day. The current Ecuadorian government is a blood sucker on its own people. Get real!

[RadicalForLiberty]

No. Texaco is at fault and owes compensation for land damages. The Ecuadorian government is failing to uphold tort law. Plain and simple.

[RadicalForLiberty]

"texaco force the ecuatorian goverment.." oh yes, texaco used it's state of the art airforce, navy, and military to force the Ecuadorian government to grant immunity, right? What the hell are you talking about? The state has the guns. Texaco can't force anybody to do anything. For whatever reason, the Ecuadorian government isn't fulfilling its responsibilities, but Texaco doesn't have a gun to their head.

[dcxsucks]

The Wallstreet Journal is A JOKE, all those photos and cases are a hoax?

What the Wallstreet Journal had printed was a hoax. The WSJ is owned by Rupert Murdoch, same person that owns Fox News, which has been a huge neo-conservative propaganda machine although they present themselves as conservative. The guy says his network is conservative then runs a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton and you believe this guys propaganda machine? Sure, maybe greedy attorneys got involved but this happened.

[arifromcolombia]

Oil companies are well known to destroy nature and relentlessly killinngs of indigenous tribes that still exist in South America. Fortunately, their terror acts are being exposed by activist. DO not give up; the conquest of paradise must stop.

[jimmah55555]

What !??!?! This video is total propaganda. Oil companies provide jobs, money, schools and hospitals to local people. They do no 'relentlessly kill' local people.

[arifromcolombia]

jimmah55555, Oil companies may provide jobs, money, schools, BUT AT WHAT PRICE. I'm from South America and have seen the destruction with my own eyes. Indigenous people live there in a sustainable way, the forest is their home and it should be protected. They have the right to live and keep their communities and culture without the destruction of the oil companies thirsty of MONEY

WE MUST PROTECT THE FOREST, AND ALL THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES WHO HAVE BEEN LIVIVING THERE FOR CENTURIES

[jimmah55555]

The oil companies are not the one die storying communities. No oil company in can operate without the consent of the government in that area. You should direct you anger at the government not the oil companies. In my experience the oil companies support the local communities a great deal more than the government does.

[sofiafeliz]

you should come over here to Ecuador and see what is really going on!!!

[UntitledPanda]

So Jimmah, is ignorance truly bliss?

[asdjulf]

where'd you get this video clip?