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> Chevron has not yet paid the money or enacted a cleanup I don't care much about any form of payment here (as it seems that large penalties hardly ever get en
by chinathrow 5y ago
> Chevron has not yet paid the money or enacted a cleanup
I don't care much about any form of payment here (as it seems that large penalties hardly ever get enforced after they made their iterations through the courts) but please, why can't they just cleanup their mess?
- crooked-v 5y agoBecause they don't have to.
- hardwaresofton 5y agoBet you the people negatively affected by this care about the payment. The right answer is that Chevron pays them, cleans it up, and takes the steps to make sure they don't do this to other people. Monetary penalties are one of the only ways to communicate with these large multinationals the system calls "people".
- useragent86 5y agoAccording to whom? This comment[0] says the opposite: > Chevron was in Ecuador through a subsidiary that had a partnership with Ecuador's state-owned oil company, which owned the majority (62.5%) of the partnership. Chevron's subsidiary completed environmental remediation required by the Ecuadorian government and signed a settlement agreement with the government in 1995 releasing it from all environmental claims. Seems like hardly anyone here cares about finding out what the truth is. They just want to collectively rage at the oil industry. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29036270 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29036270
- chinathrow 5y agoThanks for your digging. > Seems like hardly anyone here cares about finding out what the truth is. They just want to collectively rage at the oil industry. I simply cited the original article, no need to jump to any other conclusions.