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Dear Cory,
The last six weeks have been particularly busy ones for Amazon Watch as we organized a series of high-profile delegations to and from the Amazon. In late April and May, we took indigenous leaders to the annual general meetings of Chevron, Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) and ConocoPhillips, in San Ramon, Los Angeles and Houston respectively. The delegates made an impact at each of the shareholder meetings, engaging with sympathetic investors and leaving company management in no doubt about their determination to preserve and protect their rainforest homelands. Then, in June, Amazon Watch organized a delegation featuring the actresses Daryl Hannah and Q’orianka Kilcher to the Ecuadorian Amazon, giving them a chance to also attend the Quito opening of the Crude Reflections photo exhibit and lend their support to the 30,000 plaintiffs in the landmark class-action lawsuit against Chevron.
For the Amazon,
Atossa Soltani
Executive Director
www.amazonwatch.org
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www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...65.html
Ecuador’s oil policies in the spotlight: The environmental disaster created by Chevron (formerly Texaco) was in the headlines again in June when a celebrity delegation lead by actress Daryl Hannah and Amazon Watch Youth Ambassador and actress Q’orianka Kilcher visited the affected communities and attended the Quito opening of the Crude Reflections photo exhibit, which graphically depicts the human toll of Chevron’s contamination. The delegation met and congratulated Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa for his endorsement of an alternative plan to forgo oil drilling in the Yasuni National Park, home to isolated and vulnerable indigenous populations. The government has called for a debt swap worth $350 million a year and other mechanisms to keep the oil in the ground.
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amazonwatch.org/newsroom/view_news.php
Achuar sue Oxy: On Thursday, May 10, 25 Achuar men, women and children filed a lawsuit against Oxy in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleging egregious harm from Oxy’s 30 years of dumping in the Corrientes River basin, causing death, widespread poisoning and destruction of their way of life. The historic lawsuit, coordinated by AW’s legal sister organization, EarthRights International, comes after years of fruitless talks between the Achuar and the oil major. In a likely portent of battles to come, in and out of court, Oxy’s initial response was to question the integrity of the Achuar and their supporters and deny any responsibility for the massive toxic dumping that the company knowingly carried out for decades.
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amazonwatch.org/newsroom/view_news.php
Oxy shareholders question management over dumping: One week earlier, Achuar leaders attended Oxy’s annual general meeting, accompanied by Amazon Watch and actors Benjamin Bratt, Daryl Hannah and Q’orianka Kilcher. The atmosphere inside the meeting was noticeably more favorable than in previous Oxy shareholder meetings with celebrity activists all directly asking Oxy CEO Ray Irani how he proposed to meet the Achuar’s reasonable demands for clean-up and compensation. The meeting came as a new report, compiled by Amazon Watch, EarthRights International and Racimos de Ungurahui, revealed how Achuar children have harmful concentrations of lead and cadmium in their blood as a result of Oxy’s cost-cutting and substandard technology.
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amazonwatch.org/newsroom/view_news.php
ConocoPhillips wavers on Amazon concessions: ConocoPhillips CEO J.J. Mulva appeared to be steering the company away from operating the company’s controversial concessions in the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Amazon. At his company’s shareholder meeting in Houston, he told indigenous leaders from Ecuador and Peru, accompanied by Amazon Watch, that political and logistical factors, as well as community opposition, meant that Ecuador had now slipped to the bottom of ConocoPhillips’ priorities and that Peru was moving in a similar direction. The news was greeted cautiously by our Amazonian partners, who insist they will stay vigilant until ConocoPhillips definitively announces that it is surrendering the concessions.
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amazonwatch.org/newsroom/view_news.php
Amazon disaster dominates Chevron AGM again: Chevron CEO David O’Reilly was once again put on the spot at the San Ramon-based oil major’s annual shareholder meeting, as two leaders from affected communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon, told the meeting how Chevron misrepresented the scientific evidence heard in the landmark class-action lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador. Meanwhile, a shareholder resolution calling on Chevron to adopt a transparent and comprehensive human rights policy received 28 percent support, an unusually high level given Chevron management’s control over company stocks. RAN executive Director Mike Brune told the CEO that RAN is joining the campaign and stands ready to help the company be a better corporate citizen.
The last six weeks have been particularly busy ones for Amazon Watch as we organized a series of high-profile delegations to and from the Amazon. In late April and May, we took indigenous leaders to the annual general meetings of Chevron, Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) and ConocoPhillips, in San Ramon, Los Angeles and Houston respectively. The delegates made an impact at each of the shareholder meetings, engaging with sympathetic investors and leaving company management in no doubt about their determination to preserve and protect their rainforest homelands. Then, in June, Amazon Watch organized a delegation featuring the actresses Daryl Hannah and Q’orianka Kilcher to the Ecuadorian Amazon, giving them a chance to also attend the Quito opening of the Crude Reflections photo exhibit and lend their support to the 30,000 plaintiffs in the landmark class-action lawsuit against Chevron.
For the Amazon,
Atossa Soltani
Executive Director
www.amazonwatch.org
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www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...65.html
Ecuador’s oil policies in the spotlight: The environmental disaster created by Chevron (formerly Texaco) was in the headlines again in June when a celebrity delegation lead by actress Daryl Hannah and Amazon Watch Youth Ambassador and actress Q’orianka Kilcher visited the affected communities and attended the Quito opening of the Crude Reflections photo exhibit, which graphically depicts the human toll of Chevron’s contamination. The delegation met and congratulated Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa for his endorsement of an alternative plan to forgo oil drilling in the Yasuni National Park, home to isolated and vulnerable indigenous populations. The government has called for a debt swap worth $350 million a year and other mechanisms to keep the oil in the ground.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
amazonwatch.org/newsroom/view_news.php
Achuar sue Oxy: On Thursday, May 10, 25 Achuar men, women and children filed a lawsuit against Oxy in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleging egregious harm from Oxy’s 30 years of dumping in the Corrientes River basin, causing death, widespread poisoning and destruction of their way of life. The historic lawsuit, coordinated by AW’s legal sister organization, EarthRights International, comes after years of fruitless talks between the Achuar and the oil major. In a likely portent of battles to come, in and out of court, Oxy’s initial response was to question the integrity of the Achuar and their supporters and deny any responsibility for the massive toxic dumping that the company knowingly carried out for decades.
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amazonwatch.org/newsroom/view_news.php
Oxy shareholders question management over dumping: One week earlier, Achuar leaders attended Oxy’s annual general meeting, accompanied by Amazon Watch and actors Benjamin Bratt, Daryl Hannah and Q’orianka Kilcher. The atmosphere inside the meeting was noticeably more favorable than in previous Oxy shareholder meetings with celebrity activists all directly asking Oxy CEO Ray Irani how he proposed to meet the Achuar’s reasonable demands for clean-up and compensation. The meeting came as a new report, compiled by Amazon Watch, EarthRights International and Racimos de Ungurahui, revealed how Achuar children have harmful concentrations of lead and cadmium in their blood as a result of Oxy’s cost-cutting and substandard technology.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
amazonwatch.org/newsroom/view_news.php
ConocoPhillips wavers on Amazon concessions: ConocoPhillips CEO J.J. Mulva appeared to be steering the company away from operating the company’s controversial concessions in the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Amazon. At his company’s shareholder meeting in Houston, he told indigenous leaders from Ecuador and Peru, accompanied by Amazon Watch, that political and logistical factors, as well as community opposition, meant that Ecuador had now slipped to the bottom of ConocoPhillips’ priorities and that Peru was moving in a similar direction. The news was greeted cautiously by our Amazonian partners, who insist they will stay vigilant until ConocoPhillips definitively announces that it is surrendering the concessions.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
amazonwatch.org/newsroom/view_news.php
Amazon disaster dominates Chevron AGM again: Chevron CEO David O’Reilly was once again put on the spot at the San Ramon-based oil major’s annual shareholder meeting, as two leaders from affected communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon, told the meeting how Chevron misrepresented the scientific evidence heard in the landmark class-action lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador. Meanwhile, a shareholder resolution calling on Chevron to adopt a transparent and comprehensive human rights policy received 28 percent support, an unusually high level given Chevron management’s control over company stocks. RAN executive Director Mike Brune told the CEO that RAN is joining the campaign and stands ready to help the company be a better corporate citizen.
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