True Cost of Chevron
Chevron 2008 Annual Report to shareholders is a brilliant celebration announcing company's most profitable year in its history. The profits of U.S. $ 24 billion thrown Chevron past General Electric to become the second most profitable company in the United States. 2007 The oil company revenues exceed the gross domestic product (GDP) of 150 countries.
That the annual Chevron did not disclose the actual cost is paid in the financial statements: the loss of life, wars, destroyed communities, environments decimated, destroyed livelihoods, and political voice silenced. Describes the movement of global resistance is increasing and voice against such activities.
Thus, the community and their allies, who bear the consequences of the Chevron oil and natural gas production, refineries, warehouses, pipelines, exploration, chemical plants, oil platforms offshore, coal mines , control political violence of consumers, false promises, and more, have prepared an alternative report annual Chevron.
The alternative account reveals the real impact of a handful of Chevron operations in the United States in communities across Alaska, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Utah and Wyoming, and internationally in Angola, Burma, Canada, Chad, Cameroon, Ecuador, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Nigeria and the Philippines. These accounts have shown, not included. We need a hundred reports to document the impacts of all kinds. These accounts are active cases against companies from around the world, totaling tens of billions of dollars, threatening her time and financial gains for a company operating in flagrant violation of health, safety, livelihood, the safety and environmental communities in which it operates, there can be no real financial impact.
Chevron buys influence and control at local and national level in each of its operating sites, to override or circumvent laws that protect people and the environment against destructive practices of the company.
In California, Chevron is the largest of the state and the dominant force in the oil industry before the state legislature, headed by the chief lobbyist Jack Coffey, and with the support of the Association of West States Petroleum. As explained Coffey, Chevron's money "to ensure that our opportunities will continue in the direction we want to continue." As a major player in what is increasingly recognized as a rogue industry, primarily controlled by the government, Chevron buys insurance that government officials look the other way, as the health of communities and environments in the world are destroyed.
This report shows other rental models Chevron tough military "protection" against local residents have shown in Iraq, the Niger Delta, Chad, Cameroon, Angola and Burma, where a massive increase military presence and widespread violations of human rights, including forced labor, killings, rapes, forced displacements of villages, and more are pending against the communities living in and around Chevron projects.
In Cabinda, the heart of Angola's oil production, oil is 24 hours as a lawyer and journalist Daphne Eviatar has written, "what the army funded by the government during a civil war. ... There is a clearer relentless tentacles West reached in Angola today. "As in other Chevron" company town "in the world, practices in the mining sector in Cabinda stress levels and only aggravate poverty as Chevron pollutes and destroys" the environment accentuates social injustice, development stops, and sows frustration. The report quotes a resident Angola Agostinho Chicaia: "The solution to oil exploration in Cabinda Stop Chevron, is also the mother of our misfortune, bringing poverty, environmental problems and conflicts armed. "
the Chad-Cameroon, Chevron has fueled the violence, the poor in the oil along the pipeline route, which is compounded pressures on indigenous peoples, and created huge environmental problems. The oil money has paid for weapons that have fueled the civil war in Chad and Darfur, neighboring members.
In what is probably the area most damaged by oil from the Earth, the Niger Delta, Chevron continues to use the notoriously brutal Nigerian military to provide security services. The military is known for violently suppressing peaceful protests by the villagers of Delta communities.
In Ecuador, Texaco (now Chevron), oil production is irreversibly altered environmental degradation and people have lived for millennia. Indigenous peoples who know the forest intimately and lived its sustainable resources for countless generations, have been forced into extreme poverty, unable to earn a living in their traditional manner, when the rivers and forests are empty toxic fish and game. I suffer from physical ailments that oil pollution is exacerbated by the cultural impoverishment that the oil industry led to the region, in many cases, equal to almost total loss of ancient traditions and wisdom.
Amazon residents affected Chevron battle for accountability, Chevron has engaged in repeated attempts to subvert the judicial process, from the use of deceptive techniques of sampling in scientific studies of the contamination, lobbying in Washington to bind renewal of the privileges of "Ecuador's trade dismissal of the case.
Iraq's invasion and occupation, after seven years, Chevron has negotiated for two oil fields. Iraq, five trade union federations have issued a statement rejecting "the handing of control over oil to foreign companies, which would undermine the sovereignty and dignity of the Iraqi people." A confidential intelligence report on the oil law Iraq's prepared for U.S. officials and leaked to ABC News concluded that "if large foreign oil companies were to work in Iraq, they would need to be heavily subscribed by the Government of the United States. The report also concluded that, if and when oil companies of the United States would have worked in Iraq need more protection than likely that the U.S. military.
The world is sitting on a precipice. Oil is running out. The remaining oil is located in more environmentally, socially and politically sensitive areas and is much more controversial. Chevron has made in its 2008 annual report that "meet the future demand will be one of the greatest challenges the world but he who believes Chevron can be met in an environmentally responsible." Nothing in the report that supports this assertion . She did not indicate that Chevron is trying to do so in a way that protects social, political or human rights.
While shopping at best, less than 3 percent of its capital budget for exploration and Green Energy in 2008, Chevron is marketed as "alternative energy " company that is "part of the solution, " but few really believe the hype. Instead, the actual movement to embrace alternative energy sources and to take full responsibility for his actions disastrous Chevron earns much more than the billions the company can finally resist.
Update by True Cost of Chevron Authors
In April 2010, Chevron has published its 2009 Annual Report. It would not take long for the cover design Chevron Gulf of Mexico water drillship ultra-deep, the discoverer Clear leader look like a terribly poor choice.
A few days before publication, 18,000 gallons of crude oil spilled from a Chevron pipeline operating in the Delta National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana in the south.
A disaster far worse hit less than two weeks later. The largest outbreak of thirty years of oil and natural gas in the Gulf of Mexico has killed eleven people and saturated the surrounding areas in a global destruction of the oil. The plant was owned and operated by Transocean, the same company in which Chevron has signed a five-year contract to run the Discoverer Clear Leader, among other platforms offshore Chevron.
Although coverage of Chevron annual report features a native plant, perhaps the most appropriate image for Chevron will prove to be the picture on two pages: the sunset on the way Chevron.
Chevron Budget 2009 celebrated 130 years of operations of Chevron. In this document, the company said that "the values of the Chevron Way" includes the operation "with the highest standards of integrity and respect for human rights, a" deep commitment "to ensure safe and effective and conduct our activities for environmentally friendly, "and build" a strong partnership for the production of energy and support of the community. "
We, the community and our allies are suffering the consequences of Chevron offshore drilling, oil and natural gas, coal mines, refineries, warehouses, pipelines, mining, chemical plants, control policy, the abuse consumers, false promises and over-reporting are very different to offer. So we once again prepared an alternative report annual Chevron.
Written by dozens of community leaders from sixteen countries and ten states in the United States, where Chevron operates, the report of sixty pages, covers the entire spectrum of activities of Chevron Chemical's coal production offshore and onshore pipelines and refineries, natural gas, waste, toxic lobbying and campaign contributions of greenwashing.
On 25 May 2010, a forty authors of the report an alternative has emerged in a news conference in Houston to face the real cost of operations for Chevron in their communities. May 26, presented the annual report of the company directly in Chevron's Annual General Meeting (AGM), while supporters gathered outside. Chevron had arrested five demonstrators site, including the report's lead author and director, Antonia Juhasz. Chevron has also refused entry to another two dozen people from countries affected by Chevron in the world, such as Nigeria, Ecuador and Burma. Any delegation denied entry into a lawsuit.
See the 2010 Alternative Report at http://www.TrueCostofChevron.com.
Student Researcher:
~ Kelley Zaino (Sonoma State University)
Faculty Evaluators:
~ Stephanie Dyer and Sascha von Meier (Sonoma State University)
Source:
Antonia Juhasz, “The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report,” True Cost of Chevron, May 27, 2009, http://truecostofchevron.com/report.html.
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