What do the BP Deepwater Horizon “disaster” of 2010, the $113 billion lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar have in common? Stratus Consulting Inc. of Boulder, Colo., was involved in the first two and, possibly, the third. BP DEEPWATER HORIZON President Barack Obama talked as if he was ready to lock [...]
Company That Earned Millions from Gulf Cleanup Tangled in Suit That Could Cost Chevron $113B (Update)
January 21st, 2011 · 5 Comments
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CBS News Fails to Offer Updates on $113 Billion Lawsuit Against Chevron in Ecuador – Why?
November 9th, 2010 · 3 Comments
More than 18 months have passed since CBS News aired the 60 Minutes segment, “Amazon Crude,” which painted Chevron Corporation in a particularly bad light for alleged wrongdoing in Ecuador. Now that a laundry list of new and irrefutable facts has surfaced to change the complexion of this case, one has to wonder why the [...]
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Attorney Fails to Persuade Judge in $113B Lawsuit
November 8th, 2010 · 6 Comments
In a 54-page legal opinion issued Saturday, a federal judge in New York painted an ugly portrait of the plaintiffs in the $113 billion lawsuit against Chevron Corporation in Ecuador. That portrait, however, pales in comparison to the smackdown he gave Steven Donziger, the lead attorney for the plaintiff group known as the Amazon Defense [...]
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Biased Media Outlets Ignore ‘CRUDE’ Outtakes
October 14th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Imagine the following scenario taking place on the world stage: Scene 1: Employees of one of the world’s largest oil companies are found to be in league with a right-wing film producer in an effort to produce a documentary aimed at helping the company fend off a lawsuit in a third-world country’s court that, if [...]
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Sixteen Months of Reporting Validated by Major Media Reports About Chevron-Ecuador Lawsuit
September 23rd, 2010 · 4 Comments
A Chevron Corporation spokesperson informed me late Wednesday night that several articles published earlier that day validate much of what I’ve written in more than three-dozen posts during the past 16 months about the 17-year legal battle between Chevron Corporation and the Amazon Defense Coalition in Ecuador. “You were miles ahead on this story, and [...]
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Chevron Accuses Plaintiff of Lying in $27B Lawsuit
May 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment
During the past 12 months, I’ve published three-dozen posts about the 17-year-old lawsuit Chevron Corp. has been battling in Ecuador. A hotly-contested legal circus in a country where the legal system is corrupt, the case is important, because it has the potential of costing the San Ramon, Calif.-based oil giant $27 billion. Today, I share [...]
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University of Illinois Alums Honor Ecuadoran Crook
April 12th, 2010 · 5 Comments
When I read John Bambenek’s story about Rafael Correa published Sunday at BigGoverment.com, I was disgusted, disappointed and slightly disheartened, but not at all surprised. After all, it was the alumni association at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that honored their alum-turned corrupt Ecuadoran president with the 2009 Madhuri and Jagdish Sheth International Alumni Award [...]
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