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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 Largest Foreign Bribery Probe in U.S. History: U.S. v James H. Griffen
This investigation chronicles the largest Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in I.S. history: US vs. James Griffen. Griffen is alleged to have bribed high-ranking officials in Kazakhstan to secure rights to natural resources, like oil, in the early 1990s.
Tags: money laundering; FCPA; oil; Mobil; ExxonMobil; Texaco; National Security Council
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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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Secret Files
The Courant detailed the extent and nature of an unusual practice whereby state judges selectively sealed cases, some so completely that their very existence was not publicly acknowledged. That disclosure, and the revelations that the practice often favored fellow judges, celebrities, and wealthy CEO's, stoked considerable public outrage. Six months later, judges abolished it.
Tags: state judges; dockets; Connecticut Practice Book; Connecticut Law Tribune; sealed cases; sealed files; lawsuit; divorce-court cases; Texaco; Nine West; Arthur Anderson; MasterCard; Primerica Corp.; General Electric; University of Connecticut; Level 1 sealing; Level 2 sealing; judicial branch; Superior Court Judges; U.S. Supreme Court; Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford; Connecticut State Supreme Court; U.S. District Court in Hartford; sexual abuse; lawsuits public interest cases; secret court files; state-court proceedings
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Texaco on Trial
Thirty years ago, Texaco began pumping oil out of the Ecuadorean Amazon. In the time since, the region has been plagued by pollution and disease attributable to Texaco's unsafe practices. Now, a class-action lawsuit is being decided in the United States that will determine whether Texaco is liable for its actions.
Tags: Human rights; environment; pollution
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Petroleum and indigenous peoples in Ecuador's amazon
An outline of the process by which a 1994 agreement between Arco International Oil and Gas and the Organization of Indigenous Peoples of Pastaza was reached. Progress that has been made as well as the larger lessons that Arco's unique experience holds for hydrocarbon companies working to build relationships with indigenous peoples elsewhere are examined.
Tags: Texaco Natural resources
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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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Showdown at Mercur Mine
Barron's investigates a gold-mining company and finds the mine the company regards as its chief asset is the subject of an ownership dispute, April 6, 1987.
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Gannett News Service writes about Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards' administration, which canceled a state audit of Texaco's royalty payments to the state about the same time that a firm Edwards has a $1 million interest in received a mineral drilling rights lease agreement from Texaco; his administration granted the lease at a record low price, April - August 1985, April - December 1986.
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No title (id: 1114)
Gannett News Service writes about Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards' administration, which canceled a state audit of Texaco's royalty payments to the state about the same time that a firm Edwards has a $1 million interest in received a mineral drilling rights lease agreement from Texaco, April - August 1985.
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