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- What a left leaning story. Chevron/Texaco was only a 40% partner with the government.
The entire story assumed C/Tex was guilty with no responsibility of the national oil company. I would only hope that Chevron/Texaco pulls all advertising from CBS.
The world would be a lot better off with out NY lawyers. - Reply to this comment
- How about the Wallstreet Journal? The big Amazonian Scam. Where do you get your news, from 60 minutes or the WSJ? LOL!
I love how the three guys sued because they said that oil spills caused them to have cancer in the Amazon and come to find out, the three guys didn't have any cancer at all. What a big dam scam and you should be ashamed of yourself if you support fraud.
What you have here is a bunch of ambulance chasers looking for a settlement because they know they will never be able to enforce a judgement. Take a look at the lead lawyer who told WSJ that "that there is "a way out of this for everybody and I'm
confident there's a sweet spot."
Who is the scumbag here? A company that hasn't done business in 17 years there or a country that allows over 110 oil spills a year to happen? Why didn't 60 minutes talk about that? Garbage! - Reply to this comment
- Typical biased BS from CBS/60 Minutes. CBS reporting is becoming as bad as the New
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- it doesnt matter if it was texaco or whoever... they need to be responsible for their part in destroying mother earth... and FIX IT! its ridiculous how they'll do anything to make a dollar but they dont want to spend it to take preventative measures! shame shame shame... my heart goes out to the people of ecuador and the future generations of this earth that will pay for our carelessness in polluting earth. Texaco, Chevron, petroecuador = selfish greed.
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- Typical biased CBS/60 Minutes reporting. CBS is becoming as bad as the
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- mbagamers post makes a decent point - there is a long, 60 minutes-style video on Chevron's website...but he doesn't say that Chevron paid to produce the video to try and trick people and manipulate public opinion. Read: http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090503005034&newsLang=en
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- Here's some real reporting from the WSJ. Notice the title, Amazonian Swindle. How is CBS allowed to report this garbage. They should be taken off the air.
http://www.chevron.com/documents/pdf/texacoamazonianswindle.pdf - Reply to this comment
- This is typical Corporate America "business as usual"!
Go into an area, strip the land of its riches, then leave the trash and get someone else to clean it up and pin the blame on someone else. It's called "Making A Profit At YOUR Expense!" and its a game that Corporate America plays very well.
We've seen that for the past 20 years and now that people are waking up and realizing how we have all been taken in by Corporate America, the highly-paid, highly-perked, absolutely-GREEDY corporate executives can't understand it!
If this were France in 1780, all these corporate executives would be lined up at the guillotine waiting to get their heads handed back to them!!!
HAIL OBAMA!!!! - Reply to this comment
- Sensationalism at its finest. The own CBS Reporter foudn new oil spills from a Chinese company. Texaco left 17 years ago. Posters and TV watchers need to keep their opinion to themselves until they have all the facts. Ecuador made 95% of the profits while Texaco was there and Texaco only made 450 million dollars and left 17 years ago. If Ecuador made 95% of the profits who in their right mind would blame Texaco for 100% of the damage and then how do you quantify the damage and Ecuador continues to be poluted by existing oil companies. Texaco cleaned up 1/3 of the pits as required by the Ecuadorian Government and was signed off a release of any responsibility. Let's not be bias here. Take a look at all the facts before you judge something.
Here's an unbiased piece where the independant consultant looks like he copied and pasted the plaintifs conclusion's. The lawsuit grew from 1 billion to 16 billion to 27 billion. This is another scam by a third world country trying to fleece America. That whole dam country is not worth 27 billion dollars.
http://www.chevron.com/ecuador/?VideoId=EcuadorLong
I'm not for or against the oil companies but I have a small investment in Chevron. I watched the 60 minutes piece and I couldn't believe the BS. Garbage piece by 60 minutes and they should be ashamed of themselves. This bias garbage shouldn't be allowed to air. At least tell both sides of the story. Why didn't they show the copied and pasted independant conclusions or the fact that the suit grew from 1, 16, to 27 billion. - Reply to this comment
- Shame on ALL petro companies. Greed has totally taken over these companies. We all live on this planet and need to take responsibility for the planet's condition. With the extreme profits these companies earn at the expense of everyone and everything, it is up to them to correct or even prevent this kind of polution. I hope Chevron and Ecuador both step up to the plate and admit the responsibility of this disaster. Other countries adding to this issue (China) also need to be held responsibile for their issues as well !! These companies know what they are doing and just try to ignore their part until someone rattles their cage in hopes they can turn a blind eye. Sad but true.
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