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What's wrong with ChevronTexaco?

Wherever they work, from Ecuador to Iraq, Nigeria and the US ChevronTexaco has demonstrated irresponsibility and lack of concern for public health, human rights, and the global environment. They have former director Condoleezza Rice on the inside.

Chairman and CEO: David J. O'Reilly
Postal address: 6001 Bollinger Canyon Road, San Ramon, CA 94583, USA
Phone number: +1 925 842 1000
Website: www.chevrontexaco.com
Email address: comment@chevrontexaco.com

Short history: In 2001, Texaco merged with Chevron, forming the second largest energy company in the world.

Activities:
ChevronTexaco is world's fourth largest oil company based in California, USA. They are drilling for oil in 24 countries, and their international holdings include refineries, petrochemical plants, and an international trading and transportation network.

ChevronTexaco also owns gasoline stations and convenience stores around the world -14,000 in the U.S. alone.

Operations continue in Colombia, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Indonesia and elsewhere.

Bush donor: ChevronTexaco is one of the sponsor of Bush. From 2000 till now, ChevronTexaco has given US$2,440,000 to the Republican Party

Iraq War Profiteering: According to ChevronTexaco's own spokesman, "We still have an interest in Iraqi crude." Former CEO, Ken Derr said it best when he said, "Iraq possesses huge reserves of oil and gas - reserves I'd love Chevron to have access to."

Lobbying against the Kyoto Protocol: Chevron and Texaco executives advised Vice President Dick Cheney on energy policy. Parent company Texaco Inc is a member of the Global Climate Coalition.

Toxic Pollution:
Wherever they work, ChevronTexaco has continued to place executive salaries and corporate profits over the health and safety of the community and workers.

They have destroyed environment and contaminated local people with their toxic wastes in Richmond (California, USA), in Ecuadorian Amazone, in Nigeria, in Indonesia, and in the U.K.

Supporting brutal / repressive regimes: Chevron has no moral thoughts to work with dictatorial regimes in Burma, Haiti, and Nigeria.

More information:
Boycott Chevron-Texaco: an OilWatch campaign
ChevronToxico.com: international campaign and trial to hold ChevronTexaco accountable for its toxic contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Last update: 6th May 2005