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Chevron’s torture(d) lawyer
03-31-09 by dugan Corporate arrogance leads to corporate blindness: AIG execs who packaged impossible risk into AAA securities, bankers who lent trillions on a bet that the real estate bubble would never pop. In Chevron’s case, it’s a CEO who hired one of the Bush administration’s chief torture-enablers as the company’s top legal adviser and [...]
Continue reading...Chevron’s moral liabilities
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
11-26-08 by dugan A jury in San Francisco is deliberating whether Chevron is liable for a shooting spree by Chevron-paid Nigerian troops against protesters aboard an oil platform a decade ago. No matter what the decision, this case and others of oil companies behaving as their own governments threaten not just on corporate treasuries, but [...]
Continue reading...Chevron CEO Loses It
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
5-28-08 by dugan Faced with ticked-off shareholders and demonstrators from Ecuador and Nigeria today, Chevron CEO and Chairman David O’Reilly lost his temper at a Nigerian protest leader. The protests over Chevron’s behavior in Ecuador, Nigeria and Myanmar overshadowed O’Reilly’s crowing about profits and the crushing of shareholder revolts like those at Exxon’s meeting. O’Reilly, [...]
Continue reading...Chevron Busts Family Budgets
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Chevron Busts Family Budgets In Struggling California Town Of Casmalia State PUC Grants Oil Giant’s Water Company 89.7 Percent Rate Increase; Chevron Wanted 138 Percent CONTACT: John M. Simpson, 310-392-0522, ext 317; or cell: 310-292-1902 May 15, 2008 Santa Monica, CA — A decision today by the California Public Utilities Commission to grant a whopping [...]
Continue reading...Energy Traders Get Their Manufactured $100-Oil Dream, Consumers Brace for $4.00 Gasoline
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Group Calls on Congress to Curb Wild Speculation in Energy Markets Speculators ginned up alarm over Nigerian gang violence, Pakistani unrest and shaky predictions on future OPEC capacity to drive crude oil prices to $100 a barrel without any evidence of imminent shortages, said the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights Tuesday. With gasoline [...]
Continue reading...Heat Or Food This Winter?
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
No one should have to freeze in order to afford groceries this winter. The Energy Department estimates that it will cost the average Americans a record $977 just for the fuel to heat their homes this year, which has increased by 22 percent this year, according to the Energy Information Administration, with those people who [...]
Continue reading...Chevron CEO Gets Gouging Award
Thursday, October 25, 2007
NEWS RELEASE October 25, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, 310-392-0522, x317, or cell: 310-292-1902 Consumer Advocate Confronts Chevron Chief Executive Over Soaring Gasoline Prices With "Golden Nozzle Award" Los Angeles, CA — Consumer Advocates from Oilwatchdog.org today confronted Chevron CEO Dave O’Reilly over soaring gasoline prices and presented him with a symbolic "Golden Nozzle Award." [...]
Continue reading...Chevron Silent On Human Rights
Monday, October 1, 2007
NEWS RELEASE October 1, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522, ext. 305, cell: 213-280-0175 ‘Human Rights’ Not Part of Chevron ‘Human Energy’ Advertising Campaign; Watchdog Group’s Letter Calls on CEO to Dump Myanmar Gas Fields that Fund Brutal Dictatorship Santa Monica, CA — The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights and its OilWatchdog.org project today called [...]
Continue reading...Chevron ‘Didn’t Just Dial 911′
Thursday, August 16, 2007
08-16-07 by dugan Chevron’s chief tactic against foreign environmental and human rights lawsuits is scorched-earth denial, but it lately it hasn’t been working. A federal judge in San Francisco ruled Tuesday that Nigerian villagers can go to trial in the U.S. on charges that Chevron is responsible for Nigerian military attacks in 1998 [...]
Continue reading...Sting Of Toxic Tones
Monday, July 9, 2007
If you watched the primetime broadcast of the Live Earth concerts last Saturday night, you may have caught the segment where Sting and his wife Trudie Styler told the 2 billion plus in the world-wide audience about Chevron-Texaco’s war on the Amazon. You can bet Chevron didn’t expect to have it’s toxic laundry aired before [...]
Continue reading...Doing Right In Nigeria & The World
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
5-15-07 by Court Chevron reports that a group of young protesters briefly occupied its office in the Nigerian Delta city of Warri asking for jobs and better social conditions. The oil rich region is home to the biggest oil companies and their gravy trai. Yet the majority of residents live on less than $1 per [...]
Continue reading...Attack Of The Chevron Attorneys
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
5-2-07 by Court Chevron’s attorneys are at it again, this time breathing down the necks of editors at the San Francisco Chronicle over my oped last week, "Is Chevron Going Green?" I got the call Monday from Chronicle editors that Chevron’s attorneys were challenging both my character and my claims in the commentary. The company [...]
Continue reading...A Connect-the-Dots Moment
Friday, April 27, 2007
04-27-07 by Dugan Here’s news that screams “Brought To You By Big Oil” Well-reported stories from the AP and USA Today report a sharp oil price jump after news of a foiled Al Qaeda attack on Saudi oilfields. Duh. Who couldn’t see that story coming? It’s a real connect-the-dots moment. As I reported earlier [...]
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