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Scott Pelley Reports On A Multi-Billion Dollar Lawsuit Over Oil Drilling Pollution

[rushlimpdrug]

Posted by azulene at 12:07 AM

You are truly very stupid.

One day you will grow up and understand,
but sincerely, I doubt it.

[leilacbs]

Thanks to Scott Pelley and 60 Minutes for your excellent coverage of Chevron's toxic legacy in Ecuador! I think it's pretty clear from your coverage who's responsible for social, cultural and environmental catastrophe in the Ecuadorian Amazon...Chevron.

While it took Ms. Garrigo a while to admit, she admitted that Texaco (now Chevron) was the chief operator of the oil concession in Ecuador. The consortium and the government of Ecuador at the time entrusted in Texaco to develop the oil concession at the highest standards. Texaco did the opposite. It installed sub-standard technology that continues to contaminate the rainforest and cause a public health crisis to this day.

I completely object to the comment by Ms. Garrigo that the Ecuadorian court is corrupt. The court in Ecuador has conducted hundreds of judicial inspections of sites where Texaco once operated, including remediated sites, and every single site is contaminated. Chevron needs to be held liable for the damage it has inflicted on Ecuador's rainforest and its people now! Enough excuses and appeals Chevron! Clean Up and Pay Up Now!

[inrejeremy]

I have been following this story for a few years now and it is unfortunate that 60 minutes omitted some important factual history. The agreement between the ecuadorian government and texaco was entered into with the inducement that texaco's foreign investment would be subject to ecuador's lazzie fair environment policies. The largely eurocentric ecuadorian government essentially sold out the interest of their indigenous populations for their own financial gain(unfortunately, not a novel course of action in latin america). The same government now acts with indignity at the specter of the environmental degredation to which it was complicit. The exploitation does not stop there; enter New York plaintiff's lawyer parading the indians through the streets of Manhattan. Whatever is left after "counsel" takes his cut will surely be confiscated by the hypocritical ecuadorian government, with mere shillings for the brown man!

[LoganMW]

The 60 Minutes interview was a public relations disaster for Chevron. Chevron?s CEO, David O?Reilly, should have taken the interview himself. This might have been Chevron?s defining moment on the environment and he ducked the interview

[mextrips]

Too bad 60 minutes didn't interview Mr. John Perkins author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man". In his book his explains a lot about this issue. Of course Chevron has to pay for this monumental damage.

[drew_6583]

Quite simply, Garrigo sucked.

This was one of the most shocking and sickening performances by a corporate spokesperson in the history of journalism. The moment could not have been more important for the company and they blew it by not putting forth their CEO

[nelsongranda]

Thanks Scott Pelley from 60 minutes;Chevron Texaco need to be held accountable for this crime agains the enviroment that was committed for their actions in the ecuadorian community of those innocent SECOYAS and the eco-sistem. I hope every organization in the world protecting the enviroment saw the program and listened the spokeperson of chevro-texaco is an insult what she said and she looked so foolish,stupid and ignorant about her answers that we all should send some water from that community in ecuador to her house and to all the top noch executives of CHEVROM-TEXACO ("because isn't harmful"for the way they dealing with this shame for all americans agains the most unfortunates and innocent victims of the arrogant behavior of who claims to be our american image outside U.S.A......TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN SAVE THE ENVIROMENT AND THE ECO SISTEM....DO NOT KILL PEOPLE FOR PROFITS AND CLEAN IT AND DON'T DO IT EVER AGAIN....
RESPECT NEW GENERATIONS....????????

[jeb227]

A very interesting show. This was my first exposure to the environmental crisis in Ecuador. The pollution that they showed in Ecuador was disgusting and Chevron should be required to clean up and repair their shoddy work. Hopefully, Chevron will be required to pay reparations, clean up their mess, and serve as an example for what happens to corporations that ignore environmental and safety concerns in pursuit of the almighty dollar.

Finally, I must say that the Chevron representative looked extremely bad. She was angry, argumentative and defensive the entire time. Her comment about having oil on her face not hurting her was one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard. The good folks at 60 minutes should have quickly offered to coat her lovely face in crude oil, and see how she felt about that!

[Michael_in_SF]

Why is it that all of the people flaming CBS for having the guts to make this important documentary just happen to link to propaganda from Chevron's website? How many of you trolls are on Chevron's payroll? You've been caught trying to manipulate public opinion with your frauds so many times now, we certainly know that you're not above a little late-night anonymous smearing.

If you want credible info on what Texaco did in Ecuador, visit chevrontoxico.com.

Chevron has also slimed and destroyed quite a few communities on its own, from Nigeria to our own San Ramon, California. They don't have to do it, but they make a bigger profit if they don't value people or the environment and instead just pay lawyers and PR firms to sweep their messes under the rug. Somebody has to hold unethical sociopaths like Chevron accountable for their actions!

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