Wikileaks Cables Expose Chevron’s Desperation over $18b Environmental Case
Wikileaks Cables Expose Chevron’s Lobbying of Ecuador Government to Kill $18b Environmental Case Newly Released Cables Raise Questions About Chevron Ties to U.S. Embassy and Misrepresentations Amazon Defense Coalition
, 21 September 2011, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE,
Contact: Karen Hinton at 703-798-3109 or karen@hintoncommunications.com New York -- Chevron engaged in a clandestine lobbying campaign of Ecuador's government to improperly shut down the historic environmental case brought by thousands of indigenous persons where the oil giant was found to have contaminated the rain forest and ordered to pay $18.2 billion to clean up the damage, according to a series of cables written by U.S. government officials and recently disclosed by Wikileaks. The diplomatic cables (see here , here , here and here ) also reveal that Chevron and U.S. embassy officials in Ecuador enjoyed such a close relationship that the oil giant's lawyers were tipping off U.S. ambassadors about their legal str...