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"Amazon Crude"
More than 15 years ago, Ecuadorean residents sued Texaco for contaminating the Amazon Rain Forest with crude oil. The "oil waste pits" built by Texaco, now owned by Chevron, continue to leak toxins into the "region's waterways." According to an agreement between the company and the Ecuadorean government, Chevron is to cleanup 40 percent of the mess; however, the company "admitted" there is no record of all the contaminated sites.
Tags: Ecuador; Chevron; Texaco; Amazon; oil spill; toxic waste; rainforest; environmental; Petroecuador
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The Politics of Oil
This investigation is basically a comprehensive examination of the political influence of the international oil industry. The Center for Public Integrity found that "Big Oil" has spent more than $440 million in the past 6 years on politicians and lobbyists in Washington. Oil companies from Indonesia, Venezuela, and the OPEC countries, among others, spent millions to enlist such Washington insiders as Bob Dole to protect their interests with the US government.
Tags: Energy; Oil; Gas; Koch Industries; OPEC; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; World Bank; Venezuela; Indonesia; CAR; campaign contributions; lobbyists; National Petroleum Council; ExxonMobil; ChevronTexaco; Justice Department
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Wiped Out
BUSINESSWEEK tells the tale of how roughly 90 Proctor & Gamble workers were lured into quitting their jobs by the siren's call of a local stockbroker who promised them untold riches. Bill Gibbs, the stockbroker, convinced older workers to quit their jobs so he could gain control of their company-funded retirement accounts. As Gibbs' original investments began to falter, he sank his clients' portfolios heavily into tech and Internet stocks just as those sectors were peaking and about to begin devastating declines. Within a year, most of these workers saw their life savings wiped out.
Tags: A.G. Edwards; Procter & Gamble Co.; oil; health benefits; stockbroker; investing; life insurance; retirees; tech stocks; Internet stocks; portfolio; J.D. Power and Associates Inc.; First Union Brokerage; high yields; Dow Jones Industrial Average; Dow Dividend Strategy; Individual Retirement Account; Chevron; General Electric; General Motors; International Paper; 3M; high risk stocks; bankruptcy
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Toxic Avengers
The Bay Guardian reports how the Laotian community's political battles are being fought by young women that want environmental justice. The girls fight "to shut down Richmond's poison-spewing Chevron incinerator."
Tags: Laotian; poverty; California; Asian Youth Advocates; Chevron
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The Bush team
The Center investigates the backgrounds of some of the Bush administration employees. The report reveals that many of them have ties to those very industries that they are currently regulating.
Tags: TRANSCRIPT; John Ashcroft; Andrew Card; Michael K. Powell; Condoleezza Rice; Chevron; Christopher de Muth; John Paul Woodley; Norman Mineta; fund raising; lobbying; monopoly; CAR
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Paying the Price, Pumped Dry
"The neighborhood service station is a dying institution. Once as ubiquitous as the neighborhood grocery and mom-and-pop diner, service stations have been closing in dramatic numbers for two decades. Though the oil industry says the stations are merely casualties of a changing marketplace, the dealers who lease and run them say there's a more insidious reason. They're being forced out of business by their own parent companies."
Tags: oil companies; gas stations; gas price; Federal Trade Commission; (FTC); consolidating market; Chevron; Exxon; Shell
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Incident at Opia
The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine reports that "a helicopter attack on a delta village reveals Nigeria's tangle of oil and money, feuds and poverty... In fact, the (Jan.4) attack on Opia -- like so much of the turmoil in the delta, seems to have been spawned not only by oil, but by government corruption, corporate greed and intricate tribal rivalries. Oil has only raised the stakes to an international level."
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Z Magazine investigates the November 1995 lynching of playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other activists of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People in Nigeria. They had been organizing against the role of the Royal Dutch Shell Company and Chevron in destroying the Nigerian environment. (February 1996)
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Poison in the neighborhood
The San Francisco Bay Guardian reports that "Two days after the July 26 railcar leak at nearby General Chemical Co. sent a thick billowing cloud of sulfuric acid into the air, residents of North Richmond are flocking to join a class action suit against the company.... locals gather to discuss years of hardship living in the toxic shadows of the sprawling Chevron oil refinery and smaller operations like General Chemical... many North Richmond residents (worry) that the chemicals are destroying people's bodies the same way they destroy their homes..."
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Mother Jones magazine (San Francisco) reports on "Greenwashing," the public relations efforts by industries and big business, such as Chevron, ARCO, Louisiana-Pacific, General Electric and Texaco, to appear environmentally friendly, while at the same time polluting as much as always and fighting environmental regulations, March/April 1991.
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