Story submitted by Eric Worrall
James Delingpole writing for Breitbart London has published a fascinating story of how green groups were undone by their own hubris and misleading evidence in their effort to sue Chevron Oil for billions of dollars for pollution.
Thanks to Chevron’s CEO John S Watson’s courageous decision to stand up to naked green bullying, and the arrogant stupidity of eco-campaigner Steven Donziger, the case against Chevron collapsed.
I don’t want to spoil the punchline – read Delingpole’s excellent post for more information about how green bullies lost a multi billion dollar potential court settlement, when they tripped over their own pride.
Everybody wins, any losses will be covered by the taxpayers.
A federal indictment, with Eric Holder as AG? Not likely.
YES!!!
Thank You God, for giving Chevron’s CEO John S Watson the courage to ‘stand your ground’.
And Thank You again God, for giving U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan the tenacity to dig through the details of the case… and the outtakes from that idiots self-aggrandizing movie… to discover the truth of the fr@ud and deliver the blows of justice about the head and shoulders of the Green Cabal et.al.
Hot Damn – Yes!!!
Here in Oz, wonder will ‘our’ ABC cover this?
More likely cover it up, hmmph.
I am going to give the John Galt award to both Chevron and Robinson Helicopter.
My state of the Peoples Republic Of California threatened to impose some new
Draconian regulations against the oil refineries. Chevron responded by asking
the Democrats in Sacramento, which of the two refineries (Richmond or El Segundo)
were they wiling to see closed? And how much tax revenue they were willing to forego.
The vampire tax suckers backed down in a millisecond!
The federal legislature called the owner of Robinson Helicopter (Just down the street from me,)
to testify under oath about the number of crashes and deaths associated with his products.
He said SCREW YOU! My products meet and exceed all safety standards. I sell cheap
rotary wing aircraft. In fact, I sell more than any other manufacturer in the world. So it stands
to reason that there are a higher number of crashes in my product.
He basically invited them to punish him! He told them fine me, I will shut down my factory and
deny the local, state and federal government untold millions in tax revenues.
We need more companies like this!
Not likely the lapdog ass-kissing MSM will have anything to say about it here in the US either – unless they whine about their side getting its ass kicked.
Kudos to John S Watson and Chevron.
Jim Bo said
“From Wall Street Journal…
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Monday found that New York lawyer Steven Donziger and his litigation team engaged in coercion, bribery, money laundering and other criminal conduct in their effort to obtain a multibillion dollar pollution judgment in Ecuador against Chevron Corp.
Would it be naive to expect that a federal indictment might be appropriately forthcoming?”
In a world of standards no. In today world yes it would be naive.
Maybe we should buy our gas at Chevron.
Donziger. Petard. Hoist.
So the case was corrupt, but the judge explicitly says the court has no opinion on the validity of the case. He was only pronouncing on the corruption. Sadly, there’s no statement on whether Texaco/Chevron really does owe damages to Ecuador. I’m sure this will be picked up and used to show that Chevon “lost”.
Rud Istvan says: March 6, 2014 at 8:21 pm
Chickens are coming home…
To quote the great French philosopher Eric Cantona
‘When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.’
6 Mar: UK Daily Mail: Matt Chorley: Tory climate change sceptics told to ‘shut it’ by Lib Dem Ed Davey who insists the science is overwhelming
Energy Secretary launches fresh attack on coalition partners
Singles out Lord Lawson and Peter Lilley for criticism
Coalition increasingly split on the need to tackle global warming
Conservative climate change sceptics have been ordered to ‘shut it’, by the Lib Dems.
Energy Secretary Ed Davey said there was ‘overwhelming evidence’ of the need to cut carbon emissions…
Mr Davey told EurActiv, a Brussels-based news website: ‘My recommendation to most politicians who want to talk about the climate is to listen to the scientists and listen to the evidence.
‘Of course you can question it, but when there is overwhelming evidence you should tend to shut it.’
Mr Lilley responded: ‘People who try to silence their critics are revealing their own inability to respond to the arguments that people like I and Nigel Lawson put…
(following earlier stoush) But Michael Fallon, the senior Tory minister in Mr Davey’s energy department, hit back at his boss, insisting: ‘Unthinking climate change worship has damaged British industry and put up consumer bills.’…
One Cabinet minister told MailOnline: ‘He just isn’t very bright. Most of the people around the Cabinet table are bright, even if I disagree with them, but not Owen. He isn’t climate sceptic, he’s climate stupid.’
Today Mr Paterson told BBC Radio 4: ‘The climate is changing and there is clearly a human element.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2574801/Tory-climate-change-sceptics-told-shut-Lib-Dem-Ed-Davey-insists-science-overwhelming.html
I didn’t know what the name of that crime is, wws. Thank you. That historically, is a crime, and is done with intentional will to thwart the interests of justice itself: which of course are that people even have enough faith on the justice system, to rely on it, principly,
and pursuit of real fairness such that investments and civilizational trade might go forth, in real world terms.
wws says:
March 6, 2014 at 8:27 pm
What disgusts me most about the financing of lawsuits by groups like Burford, is that under the old English Common Law this was both a crime and a tort known as “Champarty”. A couple of hundred years ago our legal system saw this as flagrantly corrupt and criminal behavior, but now we have “advanced” so far that we no longer seem to be able to see anything wrong with it.
Read the whole article a few hour ago. WoW quite a story!
Ecoloons were very proud of their work. lol pg
I have read multiple articles on this story over the years since the lawsuit was first initiated. The lawsuit was clearly bogus from the outset. If the situation in Ecuador had been so serious and devastating, then why didn’t their government come in and take care of the mess first and then sue afterwards. I imagine that the locals did suffer, but they should have blamed their lousy government for not taking care of their own people.
It is very nice indeed to see the climate hysteria Nazis struggle with their very own golden egg laying goose. If you’re going to make a mess of your mess kit check first for golden eggs provided by big energy.
If it weren’t for my monthly skeptic stipend from big oil I don’t know how I should survive my retirement years. Sarc off
Here’s a reality check. Big Energy knows exactly how much energy it takes to run the country. It matters not to them how they provide that energy, it will be provided. The result is X income. If they are required by law to stop doing it cheaply they will still take in X income. If they are required to provide it foolishly per the green sched, they will earn no less than that same X income. Energy policy won’t change on the provision end. In fact if they don’t earn X in energy they will probably find something else to do with their investment dollars. That is the nature of a free economy.
What does change is the cost to consumers. Every business has got to include the cost of energy in the price of a product. It is settled science that any increase in the cost of production will by paid by the wage earner. This is possible by increasing (reducing the cost of) the labor pool. The government too has no other source of income, and the government has never shown any interest in the problem of wage earner poverty. Their solution is to increase the rate of population growth by importing unskilled labor which pleases big business. Nicely symbiotic. Another fact: when we are driven to poverty we tend to vote for anyone with their hand out if it is clutching the promise of Yankee dollars. So while Barry fiddle’s or golfs, or just tries to keep out from under the angry glare of Michelle, matron saint of boy presidents, the country sloughs off into a financial abyss with nobody of skill at the helm.
I presume that the US Governments next step will be to set the Federal Tax Office on to Judge Lewis Kaplan and try and get him replaced by an activist shill. They are already trying to destroy corporations like Chevron…see: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-04/obama-seeks-100-billion-in-new-taxes-on-multinationals.html
This minor setback must not be allowed to divert the green gravy train…..There is a planet to be saved from its inhabitants by the chosen ones.
I hope you realize I’m not going to get any sleep tonight because I can’t put down “Judge Kaplan’s Opinion”. I was there in the 1970’s when all this was going down. My most vivid memories are of hundreds of people in line 24 hours a day hoping for work.
And of course the helicopter rides…
And, because I grew up in that neck of the woods, I speak and read Spanish fluently. Therefore I’ll probably read all of the decisions of the Ecuadoran courts. You guys are responsible for my lost productivity for the next week… 😉
Now beat ABC and CBS with their hubris. 1300 days of one sided propaganda is too long. http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/sean-long/cold-shoulder-abc-cbs-exclude-scientists-critical-global-warming-more-1300-days
Not surprised Russell didn’t want to get out of his air-conditioned car. For those of you who have not been down there, it’s really, really hot and humid. Also, the monkeys throw shit at you.
‘Indeed. What Kaplan concluded beyond reasonable doubt was that Donziger’s case was constructed on a web of lies, deceit and corruption.’
For this behaviour a lawyer here would be dispelled from the Dutch Association of Lawyers.
It was courageous, even.
And the snakes try to squeeze you to death, and the ten-foot catfish – forget the piranhas – will attack and eat you. Don’t even get me started on the arachnids and insects.