http://bobmccarty.com/2010/01/26/report-bolsters-support-for-chevron-in-ecuador/ Humor, Politics, Culture & Capitalism @BobMcCarty Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:41:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://bobmccarty.com/2010/01/26/report-bolsters-support-for-chevron-in-ecuador/comment-page-1/#comment-19559 BobMcCarty Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:33:31 +0000 http://bobmccarty.com/?p=25405#comment-19559 Thanks, Gail! Thanks, Gail!

]]> http://bobmccarty.com/2010/01/26/report-bolsters-support-for-chevron-in-ecuador/comment-page-1/#comment-19558 FortWorth Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:32:28 +0000 http://bobmccarty.com/?p=25405#comment-19558 Keep up the stories on Ecuador. I lived there almost 6 years. This whole lawsuit against Chevron is one huge scam, and unfortunately we have Hollywood libs (such as Daryl Hannah - not sure how you spell her name) who jump on the environmental bandwagon when they do not have a clue about the actual facts of the case. When Chevron (actually Texaco at the time) divested itself of these properties to the GOVERNMENT OWNED AND RUN OIL COMPANY, the sites were cleaned and restored and reclaimed according to best practices of the time, and the government signed off that everything had been properly and to their satisfaction, and that they were assuming any and all future risk and liabilities. This is YEARS ago, mind you. So the state-owned guys take over, and if you look at their environmental record for drilling and producing properties, you can see that they are an environmental disaster waiting to happen. Any problems they have are the fault of the state-owned company, not a company who sold and got the heck out of there all those years ago after doing everything that was required of them at the time, and being released of any further liability. This has been a pet peeve of mine for several years now. It is nothing but a money grab - by the government, by the locals who have been told by the tree-huggers and their lawyers that they are entitled to a ton of money, and mostly by the lawyers imho. Good luck on getting a "fair" trial there. Keep up the stories on Ecuador. I lived there almost 6 years. This whole lawsuit against Chevron is one huge scam, and unfortunately we have Hollywood libs (such as Daryl Hannah – not sure how you spell her name) who jump on the environmental bandwagon when they do not have a clue about the actual facts of the case. When Chevron (actually Texaco at the time) divested itself of these properties to the GOVERNMENT OWNED AND RUN OIL COMPANY, the sites were cleaned and restored and reclaimed according to best practices of the time, and the government signed off that everything had been properly and to their satisfaction, and that they were assuming any and all future risk and liabilities. This is YEARS ago, mind you. So the state-owned guys take over, and if you look at their environmental record for drilling and producing properties, you can see that they are an environmental disaster waiting to happen. Any problems they have are the fault of the state-owned company, not a company who sold and got the heck out of there all those years ago after doing everything that was required of them at the time, and being released of any further liability. This has been a pet peeve of mine for several years now. It is nothing but a money grab – by the government, by the locals who have been told by the tree-huggers and their lawyers that they are entitled to a ton of money, and mostly by the lawyers imho. Good luck on getting a “fair” trial there.

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