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CHEVRON

Chairman and CEO: David O'Reilly
Contact the Corporation: Chevron Corp.
6001 Bollinger Canyon Rd.
San Ramon, CA 94583

Human Rights Abuses: environmental destruction, health violations, and 
violent killings

The petrochemical company Chevron is guilty of some of the worst 
environmental and human rights abuses in the world. From 1964 to 1992, 
Texaco (which transferred operations to Chevron after being bought out in 
2001) unleashed a toxic "Rainforest Chernobyl" in Ecuador by leaving more 
than 600 unlined oil pits in pristine northern Amazon rainforest and 
dumping 18 billion gallons of toxic production water into rivers used for 
bathing water. The toxic crude oil and formation water seeped into the 
subsoil, contaminating surrounding freshwater and farmland. As a result, 
local communities have suffered severe health effects, including cancer, 
skin lesions, birth defects, and spontaneous abortions. Indigenous 
communities have been dispossessed of their lands, and millions of hectares 
of rainforest have been destroyed to make way for the company's pipelines 
and oil wells.

Chevron is also responsible for the violent repression of nonviolent 
opposition to oil extraction. In Nigeria, Chevron has collaborated with the 
Nigerian police and military who have opened fire on peaceful protestors 
who oppose oil extraction in the Niger Delta. In 1998, two indigenous Ilaje 
activists were killed by Nigerian military officers flown in by the company 
while protesting at an oil platform in Ondo state. In 1999, two people from 
Opia village were killed by military personnel paid by Chevron, after 
soliciting a meeting to complain about the company's harmful effects on 
local fishing. And in 2005, Nigerian soldiers fired upon protestors at 
Escravos oil terminal, leaving one protestor dead.

Additionally Chevron is responsible for widespread health problems in 
Richmond, California, where one of Chevron's largest refineries is located. 
Processing 350,000 barrels of oil a day, the Richmond refinery produces oil 
flares and toxic waste in the Richmond area. As a result, local residents 
suffer from high rates of lupus, skin rashes, rheumatic fever, liver 
problems, kidney problems, tumors, cancer, asthma, and eye problems.

In December 2004, the Unocal Corporation, which recently became a 
subsidiary of Chevron, settled a lawsuit filed by 15 Burmese villagers, in 
which the villagers alleged Unocal's complicity in a range of human rights 
violations in Burma, including rape, summary execution, torture, forced 
labor and forced migration. Despite the settlement, human rights abuses 
continue along the oil pipeline in Burma, which is still "secured" by the 
Burmese military. Chevron is responsible for the risks associated with this 
pipeline.

Who's working on it:
•<http://www.accionecologica.org>Acción Ecológica
•<http://www.amazonwatch.org>Amazon Watch
•<http://www.chevrontoxico.org>Amazon Defense Front
•<http://www.amnestyusa.org>Amnesty International
•<http://www.ccr-ny.org>Center for Constitutional Rights
•<http://www.earthrights.org/>EarthRights International
•<http://www.hrw.org>Human Rights Watch
•<http://www.priceofoil.org>Oil Change International
•<http://www.oilwatch.org>Oil Watch International
•<http://www.richmondgreens.net>Richmond Greens


da Global Exchange le peggiori multi del 2005 
http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/corporateHRviolators.html


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