The World's Worst Oil Related Disaster You've Never Heard Of | I Was There
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2024
- Deep in the Amazon Rainforest of Ecuador lies the "Amazon Chernobyl", a 1,700-square-mile environmental disaster brought on by oil extraction and production. After a visit to Ecuador in 1993, human rights lawyer Steven Donziger and other attorneys brought a class-action lawsuit against Texaco (later Chevron) on behalf of over 30,000 farmers and Indigenous people from this Amazon region who were affected by this disaster. Through his personal testimony and supporting footage, Steven recounts his experience advocating on behalf of the environment and affected communities and the personal toll this work has had on his life.
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kirtiman kashyap that would be very interesting I don’t know how much Shane goes out anymore but I think he could cover that very well.
This should be a crime against humanity.
It is, but with enough money, corporations can become basically invincible and acquire absolute power. The legal system encourages this.
Jose Alvarez you pull the race card for what? All lives matter and I myself am Latino but this has nothing to do with race and it’s not necessary for you to bring it up. Your comment is honestly the stupidest most oblivious thing I’ve seen today.
Jose Alvarez They arent Latino. Most of those indigenous cultures that are affected were here 15 to 20,000 years or more before the Europeans bring Spanish or Latin into the culture
These people affected are naturally aboriginal indigenous people a lot of them don’t even speak Spanish
@@youthmanrecords965 really?
15-20k?
And they are "pure blooded" lol
Do they deserve less, or more based on their genetic code?
Even if so, how does that matter even one little bit?
Ps, obviously this is a baited question, plz dont answer my asinine questions, I wasnt serious, I know they have alot of indigenous blood, and whatever reason this does seem like more of an atrocity because of who it affected and how, but I really dont think that should matter.
Dividing people into different groups and treating them a certain type of way is... well for lack of a better word, it is racist, even if it's well intentioned... it's still racist my dude.
People are people.
Until an individual person gives a good reason to treat that individual differently then its probably best to treat us all the same.
When an individual turns out to be as bad as, say this Texaco lawyer, then judge that individual all you want, but dont turn around and treat his son, his brother, father, his mother that way.
Sorry to preach, hope you see this and give it a little more thought, and dont get pissed.
But if you want to fire back at me, that's cool too. I won't mind, I was a bit dickish.
It is. A Gazoogle Triple Double OOF.
"It's cheaper to pay their lawyers than to pay the people that they've harmed." That quote got me smh.
That statement is true to the core!
I understand we need oil of all types but they didn't do it the way it's done in "HERE IN THE USA" but for a country that's reading the
same. :'(
😏😏😏
@ArmchairWarrior Someone told me, and this could be urban legend that former CEO of Chrysler auto Lee Iacocca was opposed to the requirement to put shoulder straps on seat belts vs just the lap belts even though it would significantly reduce deaths in a car accident. His logic was that adding the shoulder strap on every car would cost the company more money than settling any lawsuits from the families of people that died.
Kind of like Boeing today with their software "glitch" they didn't want to acknowledge that crashed 2 planes and killed 400 people. I read the families got paid out $50K each or some other low amount.
"To say that we just tried to cover this up is just true - uh, untrue."
Perfectly revealing.
Those sites were tested by Donziger’s own scientists, and they don’t support his claims. This prompted Donziger to forge reports by his own scientists: ruclips.net/video/CB7ZLa_g6_w/видео.html
Just because he is a media savvy populist doesn’t mean he is a decent person.
@@somexp12 You work for Chevron stfu up buddy go swim in oil see how fun that is
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@@somexp12 lol and entire channel called “The Amazon Post” dedicated ENTIRELY to discrediting this guy with comments disabled. GTFO bot
@@joyusachoobarb
Of course it came from Chevron. This is how they proved their case in court. Do you have any reason to believe that Calmbacher, or any of the other experts, lied under oath? Has Donziger ever successfully answered *any* of the more significant claims against him? No. Chevron's claims against him are heavily confirmed by his silence on them. He's simply made a strawman out of the Guerra testimony so he can pretend he has answers that he does not.
That site is dedicated to explaining exactly why Donziger has only ever had real success in Ecuadoran courts, which Donziger, himself, openly regarded as *uniquely* corrupt.
I hardly get angry, but this makes my blood boil.
YEPPP ! Kinda makes me wanna take things into my hands and dish out some long overdue justice to companies like this. They believe they are above the law and they're right...BUT.. because "the law" can't help us anymore, we have to dish out the justice ourselves. Start with the CEOs, lawyers, and lobbyists from each of these companies and start working your way down the corporate ladder. Imo when there's individuals and giant corporations out there that are so wealthy and powerful that they can pay to just change the rules whenever they like; that's when the world and society are REALLY going start falling apart.
Me too, I'm pissed. One of many reasons people don't like americans.
@@redwhiteblue9866 your anger is misplaced the average American is just as powerless.
He just got 6 months of jail time today! This case has been silenced to a large extent.
This is extremely disgusting and extremely hard to watch. But I’m glad I’m being taught about it today
We must be willing to pay $15.00 or more a gallon for gasoline in the USA to stop this.
Its make me angry that the main stream media don't tell us nothing about the real issues but they will bang on about covid .It make me sick and mad .
@@ramohino or going electric
nadia harb no more chevron
Ramo's Vids fuk u Ramos, ain’t paying for someone else fuk up.
THIS is the Vice we know & love
@Leansifer no vice was bought by Murdoch, but if there attacking oil companies again maybe it's changed hands
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shame their repuatation dropped posting unneeded contents but this, this helds up being a good one.
Vice deletes comments that say things they don’t like.
Vice: lists misleading statistics: ends video with “now you’re an educated racist”. ruclips.net/video/VD-vwT6--LQ/видео.html
Welp. Yesterday was the last time I'll ever fuel up at a Chevron.
I agree with you, but does it really matter? Texaco did this tons of years ago and Chevron absorbed them and by doing so absolved themselves of the responsibility that should have been already taken. They should do more but they won’t. It’s already decades out. So what’s the solution now?
@Geritto Ojisan Just driving less isn’t going to change anything... so much of today’s machinery relies on oil.
Get an electric car
One small step at a time my friends.
@@UnipornFrumm That'll probably have its own set of atrocities develop in one form or another. It proceeds the rich and powerful.
I was an industrial welder for a time. I travelled around working on industrial sites in the U.S. Even here the big corps' only concern is covering up pollution, putting down anybody who tries to blow the whistle at any cost, and putting money in their own pockets. Most industrial sites are located on major waterways...their pollution goes directly into our Earth's most vital and vulnerable resource and the poison reaches us all-humans, non-human animals, plants, nothing is unaffected. "Dark Money" by Jane Mayer and "Confessions Of An Economic Hitman" by John Perkins are invaluable reads for understanding how our world's financial systems, corporations, and militaries all collaborate to keep their systems intact...we have to learn about and understand our enemies if we will ever have any hope of standing up against them effectively.
Companies shouldn't have more power than human lives.
The problem is that companies have the same legal rights as people. How is that fair?
Christopher Lagace they actually have better rights than people considering they regularly receive deferred action agreements where if they don’t get caught doing anything wrong for a certain period of time, any charges they have against them can be dropped
@@johnq2068 They have the same legal rights as people but are immune of all the repercussions regular people would face. Capitalism is a sham.
VOTE THIS MONTH. Vote to replace oil and gas with nuclear, offshore wind, solar, and hydrogen-electric vehicles. Vote to let the EPA stop energy companies from harming ecosystems and communities living in those ecosystems. Vote national and local leaders into office who will fight and realize justice for those harmed. VOTE YOUR DARNEST.
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Absolutely awful. The CEOs of these companies must face justice for their crimes
You got to consider the board of director that control the CEO, and the shareholder that assigned those board. It's everyone in the system at the end of day not just 1 person.
why punish them now
The people are the only ones to get their own justice. The people will learn one day that they need to rise up and fight back.
@@psiklops71 better late than never
psiklops71 Compensation, reparations, to do what is able to be done to right this wrong... come on man.
I actually do remember this. I was in middle school living in SE Asia- my dad was a geologist for a major oil company, so this- and others- really stood out to me and bothered me a lot.
I'm so proud of this lawyer, he must have invested so much in this case!
This was just a business venture for him. One he became so invested in that he found it necessary to commit fraud in service of it. This fraud has been noted as high up as The Hague tribunal.
The reality is that Ecuador is severely polluted by oil operations, but Petroecuador has never accounted for its share of the clean up. Instead, it has even expanded its operation. Texaco/Chevron handled theirs (and were certified by the Ecuadorian government), but Donziger would have you believe that they handled it wrong and this caused all of the trouble.
@@somexp12 This makes me so sad
@@somexp12 Isn't he still under house arrest for not disclosing his sources, to protect them? How was he detained for that in the first place?
@@hattielankford4775 No, but he does have a somewhat understandable concern (in my judgment) that is similar. He or his Gibraltar shell company owes Chevron money from a judgment against him but claims he cannot afford it. He was ordered to turn over his phone and laptop so they could verify this by searching his assets. His concern is that would violate attorney-client privilege because he presumably also has case files on those devices.
My instinct is to side with him on this as it feels a bit more than necessary, but that doesn’t change the other facts of the matter.
Anyways, he is a lawyer not a journalist, so I am not sure his “sources” would be an issue. He should want all his sources known. I can’t think of many acceptable reasons to use anonymous witnesses in court.
@@somexp12 I hope we consider it acceptable to minimize dispersal of that information, if witnesses in the area have a habit of disappearing or turning up dead.
I think anytime there is lawyers or doctors claiming "Theres absolutely no evidence that there is an increase in cancer rate and that these are just poor people who get sick anyway" or any other claim in similar situations...We should mandate them to spend a period of time in that "non risky" area and see if they will spout the same bullshit when its their own health being put on the line.
Yeah, and they will scream, cry, and beg for forgiveness.
What sucks about this is that if they did get sick they would have money to pay for their treatment
Not only that, but u pumping waste in the waters the ppl live on, how do they not see anything wrong with that
I had a teacher that has a brother that defends criminals like this. He says he makes so much money, but he’s so depressed.
Here’s a video of a farmer challenging a fracking advocate/operator in the area to drink water effected by the process. They’d apparently earlier said that water was perfectly fine to drink...when presented with it, they refused to drink it. ruclips.net/video/m0HL4L6Pa-4/видео.html
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi also believed everyone should live in poverty and sexually abused children. He was sexist and anti LGBT. He clearly had some mental issues going on that made him a cult leader. He was a terrible person that succeeded in doing a great thing.
We also have an enormous nuclear reactor in the sky giving us unlimited free energy should we choose to harvest it.
@@Toastcat890 Except it is very dilute and expensive to collect and store, and inconveniently disappears every night, and is severely affected by weather. Meanwhile, building our own reactors has already proven to be very reliable and cleaner than solar.
@@comradesky5931 lol yh really
@@comradesky5931 you must know that gandhi supporters in India are the ones that are brainwashed easily or are too patriotic. Intelligent people understand that he was just someone who loved power and had the mask of this minimal life expenses and ran his propaganda under non violence. There's stories of him bringing underage children to his own house and having sex with them. People also know that he is the reason it took so goddamn long for India to become independent. As for him being anti LGBT that's not a grey area because in his times a lot of people in the world were not that open to it yet. Ironically, trans people who were Hindu often were protectors of temples and were shown great respect in the village. Hinduism if looked at in detail also is more like a way of life than a religion by modern definition. There is no real god in Hinduism, Hinduism allows you to be atheist. Hinduism also doesn't care about your gender and sexuality. It's very scientific. Unfortunately it has gotten washed away into over god saturated bullshit because the enlightened saints had no other way to pass on knowledge to the common man. Purpose behind rituals was scientific and is now long forgotten.
Damn, as a former oilfield worker! This is shameful. Big oil tyrants need to go down baby. The same is happening in Montana, Texas and more than likely every where else. Thanks for opening my eyes!
What’s crazy is that they have the money to make sure this crap don’t happen but they won’t do anything.
They actually did clean up their share after they left and got their cleanup certified by the Ecuadorian government. Many of those ugly pictures are of fresh crude that, most likely, Petroecuador spilled. Ecuador’s oil company has had thousands of spills since Texaco ended their operations.
This is even shown in this video where the lawyer objects to being shown “fresh crude”. Fresh crude would’ve been collected for profit, not left behind. Looks a lot like a Petroecuador spill.
Donziger’s own scientists did not find anything out of order at the Texaco cleanup sites that they tested. This led Donziger to forge reports in their name saying otherwise: ruclips.net/video/CB7ZLa_g6_w/видео.html
Even if Chevron felt generous, you can’t blame them for reacting hostilely to this manipulation.
Absolutely horrifying, this must be one of the worst crimes committed during the last 4 decades
Similar, if not worse, are happening in Nigeria with Shell. This is why it's so important to get off oil as our main energy producer.
no arguement from me, but I imagine this is just run of the mill operating expenses for these guys.
Not to mention, we can't just disappear this stuff, that waste is going somewhere and its going to be a mess, I know if its "properly handled" then it won't be as much of a disaster... but I'm not sure I buy that.
Its still wicked toxic waste no matter where on earth they put the waste
The finish product will go out to millions of people, even if they all handle it to the best of their ability, an absolute shitload of it would still pollute the earth, and the fact is, it will be handled poorly, period.
Lots will leak out on accident, lots will just be dumped into the ground from careless assholes, or people without the means to handle it better.
ofcourse a lot of it will be burnt up or find it's way into nature no matter what, it's just assumed that a certain amount is "acceptable".
As you point out, it's just a very dirty energy source!
Sadly, renewable energy still creates a load of problems, different problems that require better solutions than we currently have.
VOTE THIS MONTH. Vote to replace oil, coal, and gas with nuclear, offshore wind, solar, and hydrogen-electric vehicles. Vote to let the EPA stop energy companies from harming ecosystems and communities living in those ecosystems. Vote national and local leaders into office who will fight and realize justice for those harmed. VOTE YOUR DARNEST.
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Keep On and Corona On everyone.
Deepwater horizon?
@@Macco12 yea, I actually got to see that disaster.
It was a weird one cuz BP just made all the damn oil drop from the top of the water and it broke up and dispersed across the whole gulf and back out into the worlds water.
It wasn't as "in your face" as some of these messes, it wasn't close to shore, it didn't kill indigenous people or ruin their livelihood, but it was a lot of oil that got away, and more importantly, that damn dispersant was probably the worst way to handle it, but it was generally considered a success since no one could see it, and since no one saw or remembered it just wasnt a big deal, or rather, no one cares now.
This is a crime against humanity.
The worst sort of corporate atrocity.
jayvir jadeja - yes, except you can create a new generation of warriors against this corruption.
That’s a great reason to have kids
Crimes against nature
Booon Noob - yes, they should all be beaten for what they did.
But its the people in power that allow it.
jayvir jadeja - that’s suicidal.
Terrible thinking..!
I’m very sorry you feel that way.
NOTHING is impossible.
Impossible = I’m Possible..!
Change your brain my dear friend and don’t let them win the war of psychology.
ONE person can make a difference and change the world.
I love how chevron literally just declines all responsibility then says it there fault because they are poor
I expect nothing less of rich people.
I've witnessed the same destruction by several of the biggest American petroleum companies leaving behind thousands of toxic chemical ponds all over the high red desert in Wyoming, I wish I wasn't just a clueless teenager working for my dad and not understanding the ramifications of what was really happening. 😳
Holy Hell...Chevron must have done a great job covering this up, I just heard about this this year...
Please share this video so more people will know what is going on - also can go to donzigerdefense.com to learn more. Thanks so much!
They did it again recently too. They had another oil spill recently in the Amazon lol. Chevron is so fucking evil its insane.
If its posted on facebook its labeled misinformation.
Chevron has oil spills in the Bay Area of California and the it barely makes it in the news , they pay neighborhoods $1k if there is a pipe that bursts and puts pollutants in the air . It’s sickening .
I just heard about it this year. It's honestly sick how much Chevron got away with
We suck soo bad! C'mon humanity. This ALL needs to change.
@M T heh heh dead communist go brrrrrrrrr
@Louis Jones way too late we are bound to get a mind reset like the past and start over another term with the current world leaders
@M T its not America & Europe its the world china,africa,india & many 3rd world country's have no regulations & litter, dump in rivers & oceans burn millions of tons of trash or just leave it for people to pick threw stop blaming & do something go pick up trash, plant trees, etc
Humanity is a parasite sadly.. earth is our host...
Hanford nuclear site
Hello,
I would like to thank you for your actions and thoughts 🙂
I'm from Belize, Central America. And we had to fight off a company who wanted to drill on our coral reef. And we as a people stood up against it signed petition which later was use to decide the outcome. I'm happy to know people like you excite in the world because as we all can see not all countries are fortunate enough to overcome these Oil companies and there currupsion. God bless you for fighting for the unheard 🙏
We all have eyes to see what is happening and brain to fight and worsen the situation but where is the heart and moral values on which we know this is wrong, in which again in some small way our world is managed by laws can sometimes stop us from wrong and right and hinder us from what the law was started for and that is to protect our humanity.
As a first responder it hurts me that companies put profit over life, without second thought.
This was hard to watch but very necessary to watch.
That white guilt bro lmfao
@@ThatguySteve69 I'm just glad my names bot Dillion.
@@mastyer0fReality I bet if you didn't have youtube to auto copy and paste my name you'd have spelt it wrong just like your other typo bud.
I enjoyed the intelligent conversation thanks .
Stfu
@@mastyer0fReality just checked your info and realized you're a white supremacist. It's 2020 why aren't yall extinct yet.
CHEVRON MUST PAY FOR THEIR CRIMES. Literally and figuratively.
Yeah, VOTE THIS MONTH. Vote to replace oil, coal, and gas with nuclear, offshore wind, solar, and hydrogen-electric vehicles. Vote to let the EPA stop energy companies from harming ecosystems and communities living in those ecosystems. Vote national and local leaders into office who will fight and realize justice for those harmed. VOTE YOUR DARNEST.
#BLM2020
Keep On and Corona On everyone.
They will the most high will judge their sins
Not likely. Not as long as we are addicted to oil. They (Petroleum companies) will have the upper hand and US citizens, especially the wealthy, don't like pollution in their "back yard". We dump our trash in China or other poor nation and we pollute them as well. Go check were our dispose clothes go to and how the dyes have killed the land and its local residents.
While you’re in a preaching mood, maybe tell us how you intend to hold them accountable figuratively?
@@Jay-mp7rf stop being incoherent. That hurt my retinas reading your dirt. Read.
Today 01/31/2022…Jordan’s investigation into Ecuadors oil spill finally hit mainstream news! NBC News World just posted a report about this 6 hrs ago…
Thanks for being one of the first to cover this more than a year ago Jordan!
This was never in the media, ive never heard someone speak about this nor try to do anything against it, and thats what make me almost more sad than the fact that its possible to be cruel on such a level.
(Living i germany, never heard of this)
Living in America I haven’t either.
@@abandonedmuse pathetic that theyre getting away with this, makes me feel like all the efforts people do to reduce pollution are just for fun and dont matter at all
@@dropgod590 I agree. That’s why we have to boycott using gasoline as much as possible. Drive their prices down, buy better vehicles to eventually bankrupt these morons. Also if you have these companies in your area boycott them completely. We did that with BP and there are very few left here in US.
@@dropgod590 oh also Exxon. I haven’t used either company in over 15 years. Not even a damn water. I’ll have thirst before I buy from them.
I could feel the lawyers and oil tycoons that did this smiling as this man isn't allowed to leave his house.
Why cant he leave his house?
EvaLasta He’s detained one his house
Can the militias and cartels do something good for once and kill these idiots
It's all about money buddy if they aren't gonna make money they probly don't care
@@scripulance.1901 good ole world, where there's money,there's interest
We are wrong to think that all humans are loving like ourselves. The world is not what we think it is.
Doug Cote I agree completely. It’s hard to wrap your mind around. I also heard my friend once say, “if money hasn’t changed you then you haven’t made enough yet”. I guess money has a way to take over people minds. Sad world. But let’s do our best to spread this video and be loving to the people around us, because there isn’t enough of that
When they put a company up front, there is no longer human connection..no human is then responsible. Press zero to hear the menu options again.
Some people are born without souls
The exploitation of weaker countries for their resources is the driving machine - profit and shareholders are all that matters.
It's happening all over the world right now in all types of industry, has been recorded in history, and will continue in the future.
Let me reiterate your statement there.
(Society is not what we think it is).
Well that was depressing...
This story launched my online publication....years and years ago. Well done Vice, you finally got here.
Chevron Needs to be held accountable for this 😡😡😡 This is and needs to be spread across all platforms and social media outlets to let the world know of their crimes against humanity 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Well we all know fb will ban the video shortly after it's posted
@ It was YT which pulled 'Planet of the Humans'
Do u really think it will change? Remember what they did to Standing Rock
I read an article from the BBC saying they were fined almost 10 billion
@ I could be wrong but my understanding was that they were fined but have yet to pay any of it - they're fighting against it tooth and nail
This man is a hero! The world needs more people like him...
www.makechevroncleanup.com
Thank you vice. Your publicity is MUCH needed for this, gooey it blows up 10x what it’s at right now...
You can run now, but you CANNOT avoid the consequences later. The people will continue to fight back and all involved will be held accountable for the actions they have taken.
This is absolutely heartbreaking
This is the content we want vice: 100% journalism good job 👏
www.makechevroncleanup.com
Agreed.
Those corrupt lawyers make me sick 🤢🤮
There should be a group of people who take justice into their own hands... so these lwyers have to fear behaving against huumanity. Nowadays mony and influence makes you untouchable.
Joe Blow
Slow down there buddy
Junkmaster Flash
Agreed
“Woe unto ye lawyers”
The lawyers are only in for the money (they will do whatever it takes to get those fat paychecks), but the Chevron CEO's are really the ones we should be focusing on because they caused all of this crap in the first place!
I spent a week on the Aguarico and Cuyubeno in '80. At that time, the roads didn't extend past Lago Agrio, beyond which we encountered only a few tiny villages surrounded by pristine forest.
Thank you for reporting
Worst part is. They are all doing it. All these oil companies. Is money really worth all those human lives?! Yatch..expensive watches and cars as a trade off for generations of suffering. Makes me sick.
Or maybe tell the locals to actually elect a government that gives a damn about them :) every foreign company exploits any concessions made by local governments, it's the same all over the world, even where I live. Tax cuts, stopped investigations, etc.
There people out there that aren't people at all, they're something else. You'll encounter them every so often. They can be funny, witty and charming and can be very aware of how they come across (even, ironically espousing empathy) and they disproportionately rise the ranks of management.
Rich are suffocating the poor in every country. How long are we going to eat poison and live in closets so rich people can fly in private jets and eat to excess, own dozens of properties. We are slaves to the rich.
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People's greed destroy anything they touch
So sad 😞
Just behaving according to local standards :)
@Dario neo liberalism is not unique to the US... the US is just the willing poster child
@Crow-ski Loc shut your racist ass up
@stk stk this has nothing to do with race jesus christ
The fact that this is still a recent issue is astonishing
This can be a whole series " I was there".
I haven't liked Vice recently, but this piece... this piece moved me. This is horrendous. These people are suffering.
Empire Files expose was deeply disturbing compared to this it was done like 4 years ago
@@jasond8738 I'm talking in the sense to there more recent stuff.
@@broche9631 point taken, it's just Abby Martin have been doing great journalism long time..peace.
Don't like it, not to many facts about oil. I've been working on oil wells for years no symptoms of any thing
Same but on the website they make it about race again
Man I hope this video goes number one on trending. Not just for Vice's sake. The message needs to be heard.
www.makechevroncleanup.com
things like this need to come more to light!!!
These oil execs and their shareholders should be strung up and broadcast on live television for the whole world to see. I hope when the world is burning they get what's coming to them.
No longer buying gas from chevron.
I think the worst part of this is all of them do it. You can't escape it.
Imagine the rubber tires you buy. Everything you buy.
I stop driving. Just ride a bike.
@@condorX2 still supporting gas companies. How'd the bike get to you? Where'd your money come from?
Teddy Flood bruh lol
I fail to understand how people can go through life with so little morals. How can one sleep at night, knowing what they've done.
That's capitalism for you. All that matters to them is profit not morals .
Marios Markoulis you missed the point
I completely agree with you. I find it hard to cope with the existence of such people.
I left a plate out the other night and found it covered in ants the next morning!!..... I washed the plate and probably killed over 100 ants. I slept fine that night.
@@BasedinReality1984 You killed a hundred ants, they killed hundreds of humans.
This is heartbreaking
Thank you for sharing this story.
This is disgusting. Chevron should be held accountable worldwide.
They should all be drug into the streets and made examples of.
Boycott chevron
sadly, money talks, and also walks. they can just pay the law away, or pay somebody else to kill the ones who dont take their dirty money.
Will never happen sadly
Held a 100% accountable 😠
This was heartbreaking...
These oil companies need to be held accountable until there messes are completely cleaned up.
I will never get gas at chevron ever again
Gas at any gas station is a mix of lots of gas sourced from everywhere. Good luck with that..
@@famousbowl9926 if we all stop pumping gas at chevron it will effect their bottom line regard less where gas came from. That was the original post point which went over ur head
You're better off reducing your reliance on petroleum, so reduce and stop driving your car. Shell, Exxon, Texaco, BP they're all polluting the environment
@@homosexualpanic And TOtal the evilest petroleum corp
Eventually you realize its a capitalism problem and not a chevron problem
Get this trending for the love of god
For real this is some powerful information a whole ton of people need to hear
It will. Chevron needs to fix this.
#freeSteven! Was that his name?
It wont matter cause the media will try to show another issue
WolfMan Why just now this is from 20 years ago
8:24 that's a HELL of a Freudian slip lmfao
is that what freudian slip means ??
It’s sickening that we allow atrocities like this to be committed in our world.
Chevrons lawyer’s are the ones that dislike this.
Plus anyone who works and profits in the refinery industry....
VOTE THIS MONTH. Vote to replace oil, coal, and gas with nuclear, offshore wind, solar, and hydrogen-electric vehicles. Vote to let the EPA stop energy companies from harming ecosystems and communities living in those ecosystems. Vote national and local leaders into office who will fight and realize justice for those harmed. VOTE YOUR DARNEST.
#BLM2020
Keep On and Corona On everyone.
Your totally right.
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I remember watching the case unfold. We heard about it here in Australia. It isn't just Ecuador either. It is going on in Asia and Africa too.
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A lot of the mess in Africa is due to rebel groups hot tapping pipelines. There's a video about that as well.
This is the true American way.
Aaand it's still happening
@@robiebol It’s really pretty close to over. The Hague ruled in Chevron’s favor, no nation has agreed to enforce Ecuador’s ruling, and the extent of the fraud Donziger committed to get his judgment is by obvious to anyone who bothers to give Chevron a chance.
The reality is that Texaco completed its cleanup two decades ago, and Petroecuador has been neglecting theirs and polluting up a storm ever since they took over in 1992. Probably all the ugly images you see in this video are from them. There is no chance Petroecuador is going to stop polluting, because the economy depends on what they do, and there is no chance Chevron is going to pay Ecuador for what they are actively doing to themselves.
The indigenous woman singing about living on rivers of clear waters, and that now her family is gone and she’s all that’s left. Brought tears to my eyes, haunting and heartbreaking ❤️
Thank you so much Vice for this. Great content as always.👌👌👌
My tribe gets a payment twice a year from Exxon i understand your pain. It took us 37 years to get a settlement but we got it. Do not give up keep fighting
This comment speaks volumes 🗣
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Boycott these companies, even 1 whole day will do damage!! We must be heard, but every1 must stand together or we all fall
But then you’ll just buy twice as much the next day!
Have a nice cave life then
@@MikeSmith-hy5rc You know there are plenty of other oil companies that don't pull crap like this right? Buy from them instead. Even if it's a few cents more expensive
Easier said than done
@@joppeke123there all the same
Your reporting is amazing. Thank you Vice.
This is saddening...😪
As an Ecuadorian myself, it hurts deeply to see my own country and the people from my country suffer. Many times the country thrives on corruption on a daily basis. This is one on a thousand cases of discrimination, corruption and social injustice.
Better ask RUSSIA to do the oil drill, USA is always taking too much profit. They drill in every other country ALL the oilfields......saudi arabia, afrika, alaska, azia
Chevron: "For someone to say that we just push dirt on the spits, its absolutely true.. oups untrue"
The nearly 500-page ruling finds that Steven Donziger, the lead American lawyer behind the Ecuadorian lawsuit against the company, violated the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), committing extortion, money laundering, wire fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, witness tampering and obstruction of justice in obtaining the Ecuadorian judgment and in trying to cover up his and his associates’ crimes.-Chevron.com, This guy is a crimial and clearly an unreliable source. The fact that vice choose to use him as the main source of information behind this story is disgusting and a clear attempt to mislead the public. If you want the facts whatch this video and then do your own research: ruclips.net/video/UKv1tsb8-q4/видео.html&feature=emb_title
@@jacobschneider26 We're gonna play the parrot rhetoric and narrative as far and wide as possible game are we?
Okay, I'll reply to every one too, you POS.
That is an absolute fabrication, supported by a corrupt judge, bought by Chevron.
Literally NOTHING released by Chevron is a statement of truth. They have absolutely no moral compass, nor and semblance of ethical behaviour. They are a purely evil company and every single person that works within their organisation have sold their souls.
This is not unique to Chevron. All oil co's are equally as evil. If you believe any different you have a: never worked for or had a contract with an oil company, b: are naive beyond description, or c: are on their books.
You need only look at the pictures of the damage and compare them to the statements made by Chevron's lawyers.
@Hellmark Channel Oh, I'm not "triggered". That is also a fiction, used by fools who would rather attack a person than admit to their bullshit being, well, bullshit. (not to suggest you're "attacking" me.)
I just like to counter complete misinformation and narrative in the off chance that other's might look into it before further propagating the distraction from what's actually happening.
@@jacobschneider26 There is a reason why the video you linked has comments and ratings disabled. ITS FUCKING FAKE AND MADE UP BY THE OIL COMPANY. They are just trying to hide what they do to everyone one earth... exploit and rape everything.
@@jacobschneider26 didn't need to read any more after you quoted chevron.com as your source. didn't stop to ask yourself "could this be a bit biased"?
The 704 negative reviews are Chevron employees :p
Funny to know: Ecuador had to pay Chevron when they counter sued for defamation.
THIS IS THE VICE WE NEED.
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We need to stop these disasters
Bruh
then stop it
Yeah? You stop driving first.
Dang bro i never really thought about it that way you're so right!
It's not a video without a ray mark comment
Breaks my heart
I have been to Lago Agria in North East Ecuador. They call it Nueva Loya now. I was held hostage for five months in the jungles back in 2000. It was very noticeable how dead the jungle was as far as animal life. I work in Papua New Guinea also in the jungle is so lush and fertile you can actually watch fruit grow on the trees
I just honestly don’t know how these people in these companies can just blatantly lie and destroy innocent lives. Talk about a darkness
Scum bags never take responsibility never!
For money simple and disgusting
The biggest companies are always run by sociopaths.
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@@daryl9799 www.makechevroncleanup.com
Take this to tiktok, those kids don’t play and will go after chevron!!
I second this, social media is powerful in the hands of people who feel strongly
Let's do it
No joke
Lets do it
Literally
More of this please!
I hope to see the day where companies like this get to see the consequences of their actions, however, it may require several lifetimes over based on current trends.
THIS IS REAL JOURNALISM
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Wow this is hard to watch. To see a corporation destroy an environment and indigenous livelihoods for greed is depressing. But thank you for bringing this issue to light
@@MatthewHensley8304 That.... came out out nowhere wtf
@@MatthewHensley8304 can you give a proper study or a source then you wouldnt sound like a conspiracy theorist. Theres lots of testing before anything even touches a human.
VOTE THIS MONTH. Vote to replace oil and gas with nuclear, offshore wind, solar, and hydrogen-electric vehicles. Vote to let the EPA stop energy companies from harming ecosystems and communities living in those ecosystems. Vote national and local leaders into office who will fight and realize justice for those harmed. VOTE YOUR DARNEST.
#BLM2020
Keep On and Corona On everyone.
@@MatthewHensley8304 pls read my comment again. I wanted sources. Not another allegation that doesnr actually have anything to do with the real thing. They have 5 vaccines, they want to get it out fast but no government will allow jumping over any tests. And you didnt say anything about covid 19 vaccines in your original content. Ill say it again SOURCES or else youre just a conspiracy theorist who wants to spread false information and lies
@@MatthewHensley8304 It will promote mass production of multiple vaccines based on preliminary evidence allowing for faster distribution if clinical trials confirm one of the vaccines is safe and effective. Heres what Warp Speed is trying to do you maniac
Wow this is absolutely crazy!
Great work! Thanks Vice
8:30 , "It's absolutely true..... Untrue"
Oh how the truth comes out unintentionally.
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It’s terrible they tried to cover this up
Welcome to the planet we call earth.
Its worse that it actually worked on us.
The funny thing is they didn’t even hide it they just spent a low of money to not be held accountable for it
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This sickens me to core...
8:26 -8:31 “it’s absolutely true”
Finally Vice came out with something that addresses a real issue
It's been an issue for decades unfortunately
U can unsubscribe
Really. Something that really matters
@@edwhitson9873 it matters? To who?
@@kieranstone1136 you can keep your comments to yourself🤔
vigilante justice makes a lot more sense when you see this kind of stuff
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You're an idiot.
True, these are the kinds of stories that built Vice.
I praise Steven for all that he has done and had to endure for the beautiful people of Ecuador and the fight to protect the Amazon Rain Forest!... I truly hope he wins this battle and justice be brought against Chevron and all the other Corrupted Fossil Fuel companies!....
I remember seeing a quick story on news about the rainforest fires and never seen anything mentioned again. Especially too this extent . Sad! All about $$...This was around all the early political BS
Glad to see vice covering actually crises again.
This short video is simply radicalizing. Amazing work and deeply unsettling. Time to fire up the old essay writer haha
This is one of the best things I’ve seen on Vice. Excellent work. Spreading the word. This is so wrong.
Boycott all Texaco and chevron establishments for life for punishment of the crimes I can say that I will be
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All oil companies are culpable. They all do it. Everything we use contains petrol. The cars all use petrol. Plastics, machines all use petrol. We would need to find new ways of doing everything.
I don’t live next to one anyway
yes, I don't know of any oil companies that are actually responsible. The only way to avoid it is to limit oil consumption by using public transit or driving more efficient/electric cars
Thankfully I dont have chevron where I am from. But I will no longer be supporting shell.
" *_When you see oppression and do nothing to stop it_* , *_you become a part of that oppression_* " Dad, all my childhood.
The nearly 500-page ruling finds that Steven Donziger, the lead American lawyer behind the Ecuadorian lawsuit against the company, violated the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), committing extortion, money laundering, wire fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, witness tampering and obstruction of justice in obtaining the Ecuadorian judgment and in trying to cover up his and his associates’ crimes.-Chevron.com, This guy is a crimial and clearly an unreliable source. The fact that vice choose to use him as the main source of information behind this story is disgusting and a clear attempt to mislead the public. If you want the facts whatch this video and then do your own research: ruclips.net/video/UKv1tsb8-q4/видео.html&feature=emb_title
@@jacobschneider26 I'd wager, that that is an absolute fabrication, supported by a corrupt judge, bought by Chevron.
Literally NOTHING released by Chevron is a statement of truth. They have absolutely no moral compass, nor and semblance of ethical behaviour. They are a purely evil company and every single person that works within their organisation have sold their souls.
This is not unique to Chevron. All oil co's are equally as evil. If you believe any different you have a: never worked for or had a contract with an oil company, b: are naive beyond description, or c: are on their books.
You need only look at the pictures of the damage and compare them to the statements made by Chevron's lawyers.
@@jacobschneider26 Stick to airsoft, bud.
@@AaronHendu All the evidence points against Donziger. We have his own hired experts washing their hands of him when he made claims that their findings did not support.. He went so far as to publish reports in their names. The evidence of fraud involved is way too extensive to cover in a short youtube comment.
Note that the ugly black oil spills you see in this video are guaranteed to be almost all *current* Petroecuador operations. They have one of the worst environmental records out there and have been the majority shareholder in Ecuador’s oil program since 1976. They have had a bunch of spills and videos of this get used all the time to smear Chevron.
Maybe this applies to what the Ecuadoran government is doing. Their company has greatly expanded the operation since Texaco left. Chevron is not oppressing anyone. Their subsidiary, Texaco, finished their cleanup in 1998 (as certified by the Ecuadoran government).
Now I Have Heard About It, Thanks VICE
This channel is really bringing issues to real world which were not being highlighted by mainstream media...good job