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    Settlement in Ecuadorian case difficult – Chevron

    July 17, 2012
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    17 July 2012, Sweetcrude, HOUSTON – CHEVRON Corporation’s spokesman for Latin America says the U.S oil giant could have difficulty in reaching a settlement with Ecuadorian plaintiffs in a 19-year-old legal battle over environmental issues.

    “I don’t want to close the door on any possibility of settlement,” said James Craig during a meeting with foreign journalists, but “it’s hard to agree with people who have committed a series of unlawful acts during the whole legal process.”

    Representatives of Ecuadorian indigenous groups have sued Chevron, claiming that the company’s Texaco unit contaminated their land as a result of its operations in the Andean country. Chevron, which denies the allegations, inherited the lawsuit in 2001 when it acquired Texaco Inc. The unit had operations in Ecuador from 1964 to 1992.

    During the trial, in which an Ecuadorian court ruled Chevron had to pay $18.2 billion in damages, plaintiffs and defendant traded accusations of fraud, corruption and misconduct.

    Chevron doesn’t have any assets in Ecuador, but in a bid to force it to pay the judgment, the Ecuadorian plaintiffs have filed lawsuits in Canada and Brazil seeking to seize Chevron assets in those countries.

    Julio Prieto, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said the plaintiffs plan to go to two or three dozen foreign countries as part of its strategy to try to enforce the Ecuadorian ruling.

    He said a settlement, however, is “difficult but not impossible.”
    “We are open. Our commitment is to collect the money for remediation and the main point for a settlement will be to ensure the $8.6 billion that the judge ordered Chevron to pay for this remediation,” Mr. Prieto added.

    The original decision also ordered Chevron to pay the Amazon Defense Front, a coalition formed by the plaintiffs, $860 million in damages and an additional $8.6 billion if it refused to apologize for environmental damage, which the company has refused to do. The total payout ordered was $18.2 billion.

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