Revolution News - The Chevron Tapes - Covering Up Amazon Contamination
The Chevron Tapes - Covering Up Amazon Contamination
Ordered to pay $9.5 billion to clean up their contamination, Chevron instead fled the country and sued the communities in the U.S. for extortion.
In 2011, Amazon Watch received a mysterious package from a Chevron whistleblower. No return address, just dozens of DVDs and a note: “I hope this is useful for you in the trial against Texaco/Chevron! Signed, a friend from Chevron.”
The tapes are internal company videos documenting Chevron’s efforts to hide contamination during the trial.
After legal efforts by Chevron to keep these from seeing the light of day, here they are for the first time.