Just Released Video of Chevron Trying to Falsify Evidence in Amazon Oil Spill.

[peoli]

We work for truth, justice and environmental sanity every day. We keep on with the hope that there will be a moment when the evil and corrupt acts that politicians and big business carry out that harm the planet, violate human rights and affect the health of our communities will see the light of day. Today is one of those historic moments.

In 2011, a mysterious package arrived at our D.C. office. Beat up, rumpled and with no return address, a staffer avoided opening it fearing it may have been a bomb. We could never have guessed that the contents would instead turn out to be a smoking gun in one of the largest and longest-running environmental cases in the world.

In the tradition of whistleblowers like Daniel Ellsberg, whose Pentagon Papers exposed the US secret war in Southeast Asia; Jeffrey Wigand, whose information on big tobacco's use of addictive ingredients exposed and transformed the industry; and Sherron Watkins, whose revelations on Enron's pyramid-scheme accounting led to the collapse of the company and jail time for executives, we are proud to share The Chevron Tapes.

51 DVDs sent to Amazon Watch anonymously by a Chevron whistleblower In that battered package were dozens of DVDs labeled "pre-inspections", with dates and locations we had come to know all too well – Shushufindi, Sacha, Lago Agrio – former Chevron well sites in the rainforest. Inside was a handwritten note:

"I hope this is useful for you in the trial against Texaco/Chevron!"
Signed, "A friend from Chevron."

A trap? A whistleblower? We didn't know, and began to review the videos. What we found will shock you. Because Chevron has finally been proven in its own videos not only to have lied about contamination, but to have hidden evidence it knew would cost lives.


http://amazonwatch.org/news/2015/0408-the-chevron-tapes



Chevron has promise to fight this "UNTIL HELL FREEZES OVER".

[madamvlb]

1. Chevron should be bankrupt over this and many other blatant

atrocious violations against humanity.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Video show oil giant Chevron allegedly covering up Amazon contamination

Video show oil giant Chevron allegedly covering up Amazon contamination
Robert S. Eshelman, Vice
Apr. 9, 2015, 4:14 PM


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Ecuador's President Rafael Correa raises an oil-coated hand to show media, near petroleum debris, said to be caused by Chevron-Texaco, September 17, 2013.
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Another twist has emerged in a decades-long legal battle pitting residents of Ecuador's Amazon forest and their controversial trial attorney against one of the world's largest energy companies.

Environmental advocates released a video on Wednesday that they describe as evidence of attempts by Chevron to skirt Ecuadoran law and cover up contamination of the Amazon.

The footage, shared exclusively with VICE News by the environmental group Amazon Watch and released to the public, appears to show workers associated with Chevron looking for clean, uncontaminated soil but instead finding samples tainted with crude oil.

The work appears to take place in an area of the jungle that has been the focus of a lawsuit between Chevron and local residents, who claim that the company is responsible for oil spills that have damaged their health and the environment.

Read more: https://news.vice.com/article/the-chevron-tapes-video-appears-to-show-oil-giant-allegedly-covering-up-amazon-contamination?utm_source=vicenewsfb#ixzz3Wqo0EWsP

[Nihil]

3. K&R

(I've been away and am catching up but this is brilliant news - thanks!)