Ecuador (RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK) : CHEVRON dumped billions of gallons of toxic waste into the Amazon…

 

For decades, RAN and our good friends at Amazon Watch have worked alongside Indigenous communities in the Amazon to hold Chevron accountable for one of the worst oil disasters in history. Chevron spilled millions of gallons of crude oil — and intentionally1 dumped BILLIONS of gallons of toxic drilling waste — in the Amazon. In a landmark case, an Ecuadorian court held Chevron liable for an unprecedented $9.5 billion for the deadly health impacts they caused in Indigenous communities — it was a historical victory, setting an early precedent proving that impacted communities could take on an oil corporation and win. But Chevron has never paid… And now, they’re pressuring the government of Ecuador to pay them $220 million instead of the other way around!2 Take urgent action now to stop this injustice Photo: ©Amazon Watch That’s right, in addition to Chevron’s role in the exploitation of the world’s largest oil reserves3 in Venezuela — after years of human rights and environmental violations there — the company is also refusing to remediate its harms in the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador, and forcing the Ecuadorian people to foot the bill for disasters they intentionally created. I’d call it ironic if it weren’t so deadly serious. Photo: ©Amazon Watch And now, by revving up oil & gas exports from Venezuela, not only is Chevron directly complicit in worsening the climate crisis at the worst possible time… they’ll also be bringing that heavy crude oil into refineries in the Gulf South, where it will add to the dangerous toxic pollution our partners and the local communities there are already exposed to too. We need you to take urgent action today to help us hold Chevron accountable and to prevent even more damage. In solidarity, Ginger Cassady & Leila Salazar-Lopez Executive Director, Rainforest Action Network; Executive Director, Amazon Watch Rainforest Action Network

1https://amazonwatch.org/news/2025/1209-amazon-watch-responds-to-reports-that-ecuador-told-to-pay-220-million-to-chevron 2https://amazonwatch.org/news/2025/1209-amazon-watch-responds-to-reports-that-ecuador-told-to-pay-220-million-to-chevron 3https://www.levernews.com/big-oils-furtive-venezuela-pipe-dreams/

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