Fines Against Two Chevron Lawyers Increased for Obstructing Ecuador Environmental Trial

[Judi Lynn]

Fines Against Two Chevron Lawyers Increased for Obstructing Ecuador Environmental Trial

Oil Giant Reaches Into Bag of Dirty Tricks to Delay End of 17-year Litigation

LAGO AGRIO, Ecuador, Nov. 16, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by Amazon Defense Coalition:

A trial judge in Ecuador has increased the penalty for two Chevron lawyers found to be obstructing the trial where the oil giant faces a multi-billion dollar judgment for the deliberate dumping of 18 billion gallons of toxic waste, according to court papers made available today.

Alberto Racines and Diego Larrea, both of whom have worked on Chevron's legal team in Ecuador since the trial against Chevron began in 2003, were fined approximately $1,600 by Judge Nicolas Zambrano for repeatedly filing the same motions in an effort to delay the seven-year Ecuador trial.

Zambrano, adhering to an outdated law that ties the amount of the fine to minimum wage rates in Ecuador, had previously ordered the pair to pay roughly $10 each as a penalty.

The judge ruled that the lawyers had used Chevron's motions "to obstruct the trial." In 2009, a third Chevron lawyer – Patricio Campuzano– was sanctioned for the same reason. The judge raised the fine in response to a motion by Chevron to revoke the original order.

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[Peace Patriot]

1. See the website "Chevron Thinks We're Stupid" (.org) for a CONTEST mocking Chevron ads!

Fun project for the technically and artistically adept!

http://chevronthinkswerestupid.org/

from the OP: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fines-against-two-chevron-lawyers-increased-for-obstructing-ecuador-environmental-trial-108425029.html

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Toxic oil spill in an area the size of Rhode Island!

18 billion gallons of toxic waste!

900 toxic waste pits!

10,000 potential cancer deaths for the Indigenous!

19 motions to nullify the Indigenous tribes' lawsuit, in a 30-minute period!

Chevron surely deserves ridicule! --if not "anathema"!

Here's the Ecuadoran Catholic bishop's letter (in Spanish and English) about the Chevron spill (7/7/10): http://chevrontoxico.com/assets/docs/2010-07-10-hubbard-letter.pdf

If the Vatican would stop wasting its time trying to purge "liberal" bishops, priests and nuns, and held a really useful Inquisition, to rid the world of multinational corporate planet-killers, slave labor perps and war profiteers, they might regain some credibility. They've been off on a wrong tack for about 1,500 years--associating with the rich, the powerful and the murderous, and trying to keep women out of the priesthood. Time to change course and do something really helpful!

Sorry, I started out saying that Chevron deserves to be mocked, and ended up mocking the Vatican. (The resemblance between the Corporate Rulers of today and the Roman Catholic Church of the Middle Ages is, indeed, haunting.) But, really, what would Jesus say about the "birds of the field," the fish in the rivers and poor humans covered in oil and toxic muds? The kids in this Chevron-ravaged region drink, wash their hands and shower in oily water. Their food is cooked in oily water. Their traditional hunting and fishing culture is kaput. Dead fisheries all the way to Peru. It is, indeed, a RELIGIOUS subject--or at least a spiritual one. Profit first--and human life and Planet Earth be damned! What does that say about the darkness in the hearts of the rich and the powerful and their well-paid executives and lawyers and big investors? They have insulated themselves from any accountability in these multinational corporate entities. They need to be BUSTED!

And mocked. And indicted. And fined more than $10 a head. And their corporate moats DISMANTLED!

[naaman fletcher]

2. no chance

"If the Vatican would stop wasting its time trying to purge "liberal" bishops, priests and nuns, and held a really useful Inquisition, to rid the world of multinational corporate planet-killers, slave labor perps and war profiteers, they might regain some credibility."

If anything, the Vatican is getting worse, i hate to say.

[EFerrari]

3. Sweet!