Chevron's lobby campaign backfires

Facing the possibility of a $27 billion pollution judgment against it in an Ecuadorean court, Chevron launched an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign to try to prevent the judgment as well as reverse a deeply damaging story line.

Chevron’s tactics — ranging from quietly trying to wield U.S. trade policy to compel Ecuador’s government to squelch the case, to producing a pseudo-news report casting the company as the victim of a ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Derek Hawkins - Nov 16, 2009 - 6:36 AM PST
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by Norman Rogers - Dec. 9, 2009

This is comical on its face. Equador is a totally corrupt country and 27 billion is a comically large amount of money for supposed "damages."

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