03-31-09 by dugan Corporate arrogance leads to corporate blindness: AIG execs who packaged impossible risk into AAA securities, bankers who lent trillions on a bet that the real estate bubble would never pop. In Chevron’s…
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Chevron’s moral liabilities
11-26-08 by dugan A jury in San Francisco is deliberating whether Chevron is liable for a shooting spree by Chevron-paid Nigerian troops against protesters aboard an oil platform a decade ago. No matter what the…
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Chevron CEO Loses It
5-28-08 by dugan Faced with ticked-off shareholders and demonstrators from Ecuador and Nigeria today, Chevron CEO and Chairman David O’Reilly lost his temper at a Nigerian protest leader. The protests over Chevron’s behavior in Ecuador,…
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Chevron Busts Family Budgets
Chevron Busts Family Budgets In Struggling California Town Of Casmalia State PUC Grants Oil Giant’s Water Company 89.7 Percent Rate Increase; Chevron Wanted 138 Percent CONTACT: John M. Simpson, 310-392-0522, ext 317; or cell: 310-292-1902…
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Energy Traders Get Their Manufactured $100-Oil Dream, Consumers Brace for $4.00 Gasoline
Group Calls on Congress to Curb Wild Speculation in Energy Markets Speculators ginned up alarm over Nigerian gang violence, Pakistani unrest and shaky predictions on future OPEC capacity to drive crude oil prices to…
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Heat Or Food This Winter?
No one should have to freeze in order to afford groceries this winter. The Energy Department estimates that it will cost the average Americans a record $977 just for the fuel to heat their homes…
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Chevron CEO Gets Gouging Award
NEWS RELEASE October 25, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, 310-392-0522, x317, or cell: 310-292-1902 Consumer Advocate Confronts Chevron Chief Executive Over Soaring Gasoline Prices With "Golden Nozzle Award" Los Angeles, CA — Consumer Advocates from…
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Chevron Silent On Human Rights
NEWS RELEASE October 1, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522, ext. 305, cell: 213-280-0175 ‘Human Rights’ Not Part of Chevron ‘Human Energy’ Advertising Campaign; Watchdog Group’s Letter Calls on CEO to Dump Myanmar Gas Fields that…
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Chevron ‘Didn’t Just Dial 911’
08-16-07 by dugan Chevron’s chief tactic against foreign environmental and human rights lawsuits is scorched-earth denial, but it lately it hasn’t been working. A federal judge in San Francisco ruled Tuesday that Nigerian…
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Sting Of Toxic Tones
If you watched the primetime broadcast of the Live Earth concerts last Saturday night, you may have caught the segment where Sting and his wife Trudie Styler told the 2 billion plus in the world-wide…
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Doing Right In Nigeria & The World
5-15-07 by Court Chevron reports that a group of young protesters briefly occupied its office in the Nigerian Delta city of Warri asking for jobs and better social conditions. The oil rich region is home…
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Attack Of The Chevron Attorneys
5-2-07 by Court Chevron’s attorneys are at it again, this time breathing down the necks of editors at the San Francisco Chronicle over my oped last week, "Is Chevron Going Green?" I got the call…
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A Connect-the-Dots Moment
04-27-07 by Dugan Here’s news that screams “Brought To You By Big Oil” Well-reported stories from the AP and USA Today report a sharp oil price jump after news of a foiled Al Qaeda…