The Environmental Disaster No One Knows About
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Here is a brief list of sources if youβd like to learn more about the Amazon Chernobyl
The Case
https://www.courthousenews.com/wikileaks-shows-nascent-oil-woes-in-ecuador/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/17/chevron-amazon-oil-toxic-waste-dump-ecuador-boycott
https://www.reuters.com/article/chevron-ecuador-canada/chevrons-u-s-win-in-ecuador-case-looms-over-cases-elsewhere-idUSL1N0M21JC20140307/
https://www.muls.org/the-brief-online/the-persecution-of-steven-donziger-a-slapp-in-the-face
https://chevroninecuador.org/assets/docs/2013-12-17-respondents-track-2-rejoinder.pdf https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/07/steven-donziger-chevron
https://scheerpost.com/2020/08/25/how-corporate-tyranny-works/
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/donziger-chevron-documents/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/morgansimon/2022/05/26/courts-are-not-a-weapon-how-corporations-like-chevron-use-the-law-to-get-their-way/
https://jacobin.com/2021/10/steven-donziger-loretta-preska-law-corruption-courts-corporate-influence
https://www.wsj.com/articles/131-federal-judges-broke-the-law-by-hearing-cases-where-they-had-a-financial-interest-11632834421
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/false-testimony-forced-ecuador_b_5600985
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-10-24/chevron-calls-star-witness-a-bribe-taking-former-judge
https://ccrjustice.org/bowoto-v-chevron-murder-and-torture-nigerians-protesting-oil-company
https://thediplomat.com/2017/04/chevron-kem-leys-murder-and-cambodian-politics/
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/beverly-hills-high-school-oil-well-pump-fire/
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/sludge-match-inside-chevrons-9-billion-legal-battle-with-ecuadorean-villagers-71779/
https://www.desmog.com/2015/04/09/chevron-whistleblower-videos-show-deliberate-cover-oil-pollution-ecuador/
https://www.desmog.com/2015/04/09/chevron-whistleblower-videos-show-deliberate-cover-oil-pollution-ecuador/
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/donziger-asks-judge-heed-un-experts-finding-arbitrary-detention-2021-09-30/
https://www.courthousenews.com/lawyer-imprisoned-after-taking-on-chevron-finds-friends-at-high-court/
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/2021-11/A_HRC_WGAD_2021_24_AdvanceEditedVersion.pdf
https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2021/01/20/donzigers-criminal-trial-is-postponed-once-again-as-his-motion-to-dismiss-counts-is-denied/?slreturn=20241002-31815
Ecuador Notes
https://truthout.org/articles/ecuador-s-legal-battle-with-chevron-foreshadows-global-corporate-coup-d-etat/
https://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/3619/1/B39_-_Oil_and_Politics_in_Ecuador_1972-1976.pdf
Open Veins Of Latin America - Eduardo Hughes Galeano
Orphaned Oil Wells
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-26-me-ooze26-story.html
https://www.ladowntownnews.com/news/olive-street-reopens-after-oil-leak/article_17fa4773-13b6-5de3-8f94-f884d19c257c.html
https://e360.yale.edu/features/the-oil-well-next-door-californias-silent-health-hazard
https://lamag.com/lahistory/hidden-oil-wells
https://environmentamerica.org/california/resources/mapping-the-risks-of-californias-idle-and-orphan-oil-wells/
https://theconversation.com/las-long-troubled-history-with-urban-oil-drilling-is-nearing-an-end-after-years-of-health-concerns-198650