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MIDLAND REPORTER-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2014
An Open Letter
EMBAJADA DEL ECUADOR WASHINGTON D.C.
Dear Chevron Shareholders, As you may know, while it operated Legal battles over courts, and other In that regard, I would As part of the pending internationally recognized, own testing—to get to keep secret but In our view, the results 1. Texaco availability 2. Substantial 3. That contamination in the In the accompanying I do not write this person or company. Company’s liability I encourage you to As it stands, Chevron litigations, and still I nonetheless am will choose to act,
Ecuadorian indigenous plaintiff 1993 in a federal district court asked the New York court to dismi At the time, the Company had affidavits in support) that the adjudicating the dispute. The court in New York in 2002, an re-filed the case in Ecuador—as Almost immediately thereafter, complaints about “fraud”—Che and arbitrations against the Rep resources were wasted on this U.S. federal district court in New International Tribunal The same year after its claims w years prior to any decision by residents’ claims), Chevron arbitration against the Republic In the arbitration proceedings, kind of contamination in the ra decades, and that if there wer environment or the inhabitants o claims—and all of the eviden Chevron’s own environmental t sought to keep secret but wa in support of the arbitral proceedi New Evidence of Significant Te Experts with the internationally firm the Louis Berger Group re own testing—to get to the trut no room for doubt of three facts: 1. Texaco knowingly engage to widespread contamina technologies that Texaco 2. Substantial contaminatio today; 3. That contamination has c cause significant health an Chevron’s own experts tested so judicial inspections in the rainforest litigation.
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