And the Lifetime Award for Shameful Corporate Behavior Goes to... Chevron

[unhappycamper]

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/23/and-lifetime-award-shameful-corporate-behavior-goes-chevron



"Chevron is uniquely deserving of a lifetime award for the lifetime of misery they have caused the Ecuadorian Amazon," said Paul Paz y Miño of Amazon Watch

And the Lifetime Award for Shameful Corporate Behavior Goes to... Chevron
Sarah Lazare, staff writer
Published on Friday, January 23, 2015

As global elites gather in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum, the oil giant Chevron was singled out on Friday for a highly competitive—if unflattering—international distinction: the Public Eye Lifetime Award for its extraordinary corporate irresponsibility, which includes monumental environmental destruction in northern Ecuador.

Granted by grassroots organizations at a public ceremony at a hotel in Davos, the winner of the satirical prize was determined by tens of thousands of online voters. The race was close, with Glencore and Walmart coming in a close second, but voters ultimately determined that Chevron deserves the top distinction.

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"Chevron is uniquely deserving of a lifetime award for the lifetime of misery they have caused the Ecuadorian Amazon," Paul Paz y Miño, of the U.S.-based organization Amazon Watch, told Common Dreams over the phone from Davos. "This is not only because of their original pollution—dumping 18 billion gallons of toxic waste—but because they have ignored every judicial process to hold them to account, even though they were determined liable for $9.5 billion in court of their own choosing."

"Not only did they refuse to pay," Paz y Miño added, "but they pointed their finger at their own victims, accusing the people that they poisoned of a global conspiracy to commit fraud. It undermines the very fabric of our society because you can't simply evade justice because you have the wealth to litigate in perpetuity."

[Fred Sanders]

1. The 99% just do not understand that the Earth is here for Man to plunder and pillage for profit and

individual personal power.

The 1% want to be worshipped, as they always have, and they have all the money to prove that they should be.

On your knees, common lackeys, worship your Corporate Overlords and Masters, it is the dawn of the
New Gilded Age, all resistance is futile.....we control the horizontal and the vertical.
Abandon your so called "democracy", little people, voting is passé, just put us superior folks in absolute control, nothing will go wrong, our media will entertain you.

Worship me, worship me!!

(Apologies to John Lovitz's billionaire character)

[zeemike]

2. Well you have to be good to beat out Monsanto.

But it looks like they were...but don't worry Monsanto you can be just as ruthless as them...we know you can.

[Johnny Rash]

3. When a "Slap-On-The-Hand" is a FETISH to them, why put to shame those who are shameless?

What's really needed is a MASSIVE WAKE UP-CALL: Boycott the Petroleum Entity, Chevron, from the Planet Earth!

Otherwise, we will all wake-up, one day, in a very dark place, wherein the END-OF-THE-WORLD resides for eternity.