Chevron CEO: Let us drill everywhere, and we’ll hire a million workers

[truebluefan]

If only there were examples of how Big Oil, and Chevron specifically, failed to stay out of trouble when drilling everywhere. Hmm…

But of course, there’s that little $18 billion problem in Ecuador:

Chevron Corp has filed an appeal with Ecuador’s Supreme Court to review a judgment that the U.S. oil company pay $18 billion in damages for polluting the Amazon jungle. An Ecuadorian judge ordered the U.S. major to pay the damages after a fraught legal battle that has lasted nearly two decades and looks like it will run even longer.

And then the more recent drilling problem in Brazil.

A Brazilian prosecutor plans to file criminal charges against Chevron Corp and some of its local managers within weeks, adding the threat of prison sentences to an $11 billion civil lawsuit as punishment for a November offshore oil spill.

Read more http://americablog.com/2012/11/chev...ere-and-we-will-hire-millions-of-workers.html

 

[Denny Crane]

Thanks for the articles from "Chris in Paris."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/28/chevron-brazil-fine-idUSL1E8KS1J820120928