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Now, stadium construction can continue at full speed, though the 49ers will have to wait longer to get their money, while local schools and other agencies will get to tap into the disputed funding source but get about half of what they wanted.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_21277882/you-thought-mondays-chevron-fire-was-bad-look\">You thought Monday's Chevron fire was bad, look back to the '90s\u003c/a> (Contra Costa Times)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>While Monday's massive fire at Chevron's Richmond refinery blackened skies, scared residents and renewed calls for stricter regulation and oversight, the frequency and severity of such accidents at Contra Costa County's four oil refineries has declined significantly since beefed-up industrial safety regulations were put in place 13 years ago. 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"content": "\u003cp>If you live next to an oil refinery, are you just out of luck?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last night's fire at the Chevron plant showed that having a belching stack of chemical processing equipment as your neighbor ranges from inconvenient to downright hazardous. \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/08/07/chevron-refinery-fire-health-impact/\">Hundreds of Richmond residents sought treatment\u003c/a> for breathing difficulties, some BART service was suspended and everyone was advised to stay indoors -- with duct tape at the ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lots of people in Richmond -- like people everywhere in the United States -- like to drive cars. Cars burn gas, and you can't have gas without refineries. So is pollution simply the price we have to pay for our favorite mode of locomotion -- a price that the market has already figured into Richmond real estate values?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_72562\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Chevron-fire.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-72562\" title=\"Chevron fire\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Chevron-fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke poured from Chevron's Richmond refinery on Monday (Aarti Shahani/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richmond residents don't think so. \"It was frightening for my family to watch the huge black plume of smoke fill the sky, and to hear the 'shelter in place' warning horns throughout the evening...\" resident Kay Wallis told us in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The oil giant makes billions in profits by refining oil, but repeatedly sues our local government to reduce its corporate property taxes. 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But he admits that's going to take a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the meantime, a lot of other improvements are possible, he says. He points out that a fire broke out at the refinery in 2007 -- apparently in the same place, the crude oil processing unit. “Refineries don’t burn down the crude unit every five years. That is not normal for a refinery,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Forum, Heather Kulp, a Chevron spokesperson apologized for the fire. \"We're continually striving to improve our operational processes to minimize these incidents,\" she said. \"And we are effectively working with our regulatory agencies to make sure we put into process and into place all those procedures we need to make sure these types of things don't happen in the future.\" But she didn't offer any specifics on measures the refinery is taking to prevent such crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Karras points out that fires are only one source of pollution from the refinery. 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But there’s some dispute as to whether Chevron might have to post a multi-billion dollar bond to make that appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron is also trying to undo the judgement or indemnify itself through an arbitration process in the Hague. And Chevron right about the time the $18 billion judgement came down actually sued the lead lawyer for the plaintiff’s, American Steven Donziger, in New York federal court, accusing him of fraud and extortion and saying he was part of a racketeering conspiracy. That case has been suspended for the moment but may continue.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Donziger was a key figure in a 2009 documentary about the case, \u003cem>Crude\u003c/em>. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duFXuRnd2CU&feature=player_embedded\">Watch the trailer here\u003c/a>.) 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Should the Supreme Court uphold the lower courts’ decisions, Ecuador would seek to enforce that in any country where Chevron has assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So it doesn’t need to be in Ecuador…\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, the plaintiff can try to recover the judgment in any country where Chevron has holdings. After the initial trial court decision in Ecuador, Chevron went to US courts and sought a ruling that attempts to prevent any country from honoring the decision in Ecuador’s courts. That was overruled by a US Appeals Court, which said it’s not possible for US courts to dictate to courts of other sovereign nations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Originally, Chevron wanted the trial originally to take place in Ecuador, correct?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one of the peculiar aspects of this case. Originally it was brought by Ecuadoran plaintfiffs in US court and Chevron argued strenuously to a US court that in fact Ecuador was the most appropriate place to try the case. So the US court said fine, bring the proceedings to Ecuador, which the plaintiffs did. But they didn’t the results they had hoped for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about this case is making it drag on so long?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cases like this typically do take a long time. This case was originally filed in the US in one state, was removed to another state, and then it went to Ecuador. That extended the proceedings, and there were also lengthy factual findings and investigations with a court-appointed expert in Ecuador looking at the actual sites where the pollution was alleged to occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, you might think of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, which occurred decades ago but only recently wound up in the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So could it be one strategy of Chevron to draw out the proceedings?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has taken a very aggressive litigation strategy in challenging this decision in numerous forums, including in international arbitration that’s based in The Hague. In fact courts that are asked to compel Chevron to pay the Ecuador judgmentwill need to take a look at that Hague arbitration proceeding, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is like a long-running melodrama. There will be another installment. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, KQED’s Kelly Wilkinson talked about the case with Cynie Payne, a Rutgers University assistant professor and former UC Berkeley lecturer who specializes in international and environmental law. Here’s an edited transcript:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How significant was the latest ruling? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent ruling by the Ecuador appeals court is one step in the process. US courts are similar to Ecuador courts – first trial, then appeals, then Supreme Court. So there’s one further level of review in this case.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nChevron says it doesn’t believe the ruling is enforceable and basically they have no intention of paying. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_16577\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/02/chevronecuadorSM.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/02/chevronecuadorSM.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"chevronecuadorSM\" width=\"240\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16577\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors hold photos of Ecuadorians affected by toxic waste (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty) \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An Ecuadorean court yesterday ordered Chevron to pay $8.64 billion to a group of several dozen plaintiffs acting on behalf of indigenous groups, who suffered ill health effects due to oil exploration in the country's rainforest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The payout would be the second largest in history for environmental damages, surpassed only by the $20 billion BP agreed to pay into a settlement fund for victims of last year's Gulf oil spill. The case has been going on since 1993 and has been litigated in both the U.S. and Ecuador. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the plaintiffs, who feel the award is insufficient, and Chevron plan to \u003ca href=\"http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/02/15/ecuador.chevron/\">appeal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The environmental damage over a nearly 30-year period was done by Texaco, which Chevron \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/16/business/chevron-agrees-to-buy-texaco-for-stock-valued-at-36-billion.html\">bought\u003c/a> in 2000, in partnership with Ecuador's state oil company. Therein lies the dispute. From the New York Times: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The plaintiffs claim that Chevron must be held responsible for damage where Texaco once operated. Chevron, however, argues that Texaco carried out a cleanup agreement with the Ecuadorean government and that much of the damage was done after Texaco left in the early 1990s, actions for which it should not be held responsible.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seemingly intractable suit, which was filed in 1993, ensnarled filmmaker \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0075666/\">Joe Berlinger\u003c/a> after he produced and directed \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.crudethemovie.com/\">Crude\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, a documentary about the case. \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duFXuRnd2CU&feature=player_embedded#at=123\">Trailer here\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe width=\"420\" height=\"262\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/duFXuRnd2CU\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A.O. Scott, the Times' movie reviewer, \u003ca href=\"http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/movies/09crude.html\">wrote this\u003c/a> about the film: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>...while Mr. Berlinger’s sympathies clearly lie with the oddly matched pair of lawyers — Steven Donziger, a big, outgoing American, and Pablo Fajardo, a wiry, diffident Ecuadorean — who are consumed by the now 16-year-old suit against Chevron, he is fair-minded enough to include rebuttals from the company’s executives and in-house environmental scientists. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Not fair enough for Chevron, apparently. The company won a lawsuit in which Berlinger was \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/16/entertainment/la-et-crude-20100716\">required\u003c/a> to hand over certain outtakes that the company says show legal and political manipulation on the part of Donziger. Chevron is using those clips as part of a public relations campaign against the high-profile \u003ca href=\"http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/company-news-story.aspx?storyid=201102072159dowjonesdjonline000266&title=patton-boggs-sues-chevron-legal-team-in-ecuador-case\">legal team\u003c/a>. (By the way, type in \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/search?q=chevron+ecuador&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a\">Chevron Ecuador\u003c/a>\" into Google, and you'll see the oil giant's text ad linking to its site about the case). Chevron also cited the omitted video recently as part of a \u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=7934262\">countersuit\u003c/a>, including federal racketeering claims, against plaintiffs' attorneys. (You can watch some of those \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/user/TexacoEcuador\">\u003cstrong>outtakes\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This 2010 \u003ca href=\"http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202472359928&Chevron_Follows_Up_Its_Blockbuster_Release_With_a_Sequel\">article\u003c/a> from The American Lawyer describes the impact of one of the clips:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In one of the key outtakes... Donziger remarks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have concluded that we need to do more, politically, to control the court, to pressure the court. We believe they make decisions based on who they fear the most, not based on what the laws should dictate. So, what we want to do is to take over the court with a massive protest... It's a huge effort, it costs money...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donziger goes on: \"This is Ecuador. ... You can say whatever you want, and at the end of the day, there's a thousand people around the courthouse, you're going to get what you want. Sorry, but it's true.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>...It's hard to read the transcripts filed by Chevron without concluding that Donziger's intent in doing so was to put political pressure on the court. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Whatever the legal and p.r. tactics on both sides, the key question now is: Will Chevron ultimately have to pay? Legal experts interviewed by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/world/americas/15ecuador.html?_r=1#h%5B%5D\">Times\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.forbes.com/danielfisher/2011/02/15/chevron-ecuador-plaintiffs-face-tough-sell-in-u-s/\">Forbes\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-02-15/chevron-s-ecuador-award-unenforceable-analysts-say.html\">Bloomberg\u003c/a> sound dubious. Some quotes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\n\"It’s probably unenforceable. I wouldn’t want to say $8 billion is insignificant in any way, shape or form for Chevron, because it’s not, but given the lack of local assets, Ecuador is going to have difficulty enforcing this.”\u003cbr>\n--Mark Gilman, an analyst at Benchmark Co. in New York\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s cheaper for Chevron to pay the lawyers than to pay for the lawsuit. It’s a simple business case for them.”\u003cbr>\n--William Adams, portfolio manager at Resilience AG in Zurich\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Whether any portion of the claims will be paid by Chevron is less clear.”\u003cbr>\n--David M. Uhlmann, University of Michigan environmental law professor\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It might as well be Monopoly money, given all the respect that Chevron will show it. There is a legal regime for enforcing foreign judgments but there is a lot of discretion for U.S. judges to suspend the enforcement of foreign judgments.”\u003cbr>\n--Ralph G. Steinhardt, George Washington University professor of law and international affairs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They could try to seize things on a piecemeal basis around the world, no question about it. But if they take it to the U.S, which I always thought they contemplated as Plan A, they’re going to struggle to get it enforced.”\u003cbr>\n--Jonathan Drimmer, corporate defense lawyer at Steptoe & Johnson \u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Daniel Fisher's \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.forbes.com/danielfisher/2011/02/15/chevron-ecuador-plaintiffs-face-tough-sell-in-u-s/\">Full Disclosure\u003c/a> blog on Forbes examines Chevron's legal strategy in trying to establish the Ecuador trial as invalid:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Judges in the U.S. will reject a foreign judgment achieved through a process not to their liking. It has to be more than basic differences in court rules, said Ralf Michaels, a professor of international law at Duke University School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Showing that the procedure differs, that you dont have a jury system, for example, won’t work,” said Michaels. “You need to show something like undue contact between a party and the judge, proof of bribery or procedural fraud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of which Chevron has methodically tried to establish in proceedings before U.S. courts over the past year. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplanhas been particularly receptive to Chevron’s efforts to obtain evidence to support its case, ordering the plaintiffs to turn over internal documents that normally would be behind an armor-plated wall of attorney-client privilege. Those documents show the plaintiffs supplied the bulk of the scientific damages report submitted by a supposedly independent court expert, who was also paid by the plaintiff lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read through the filings and interesting tidbits emerge: Why did the oil company’s lawyers at Gibson Dunn spend so much time in one deposition getting plaintiff lawyers to explain why they moved a staffer overseeing the scientific evidence to a separate, private office? Acting in secrecy, some might argue, is evidence of scienter or guilty conscience, a necessary element of fraud. (The plaintiffs say there is nothing wrong, under Ecuador law, with supplying information to a court expert, and the judge reportedly said he didn’t consider the expert’s report in setting damages anyway.)\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Still, Fisher puts it this way: \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.chevron.com/ecuador/?gclid=CJX1xOSki6cCFRtVgwodTUM7gg\">Chevron says\u003c/a> it won’t pay a dime, ever. That’s what defendants always say, of course, right up until they settle.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And of course plaintiffs say they will pursue the case to the bitter end.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Scott, the Times' movie reviewer, \u003ca href=\"http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/movies/09crude.html\">wrote this\u003c/a> about the film: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>...while Mr. Berlinger’s sympathies clearly lie with the oddly matched pair of lawyers — Steven Donziger, a big, outgoing American, and Pablo Fajardo, a wiry, diffident Ecuadorean — who are consumed by the now 16-year-old suit against Chevron, he is fair-minded enough to include rebuttals from the company’s executives and in-house environmental scientists. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Not fair enough for Chevron, apparently. The company won a lawsuit in which Berlinger was \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/16/entertainment/la-et-crude-20100716\">required\u003c/a> to hand over certain outtakes that the company says show legal and political manipulation on the part of Donziger. 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You can say whatever you want, and at the end of the day, there's a thousand people around the courthouse, you're going to get what you want. Sorry, but it's true.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>...It's hard to read the transcripts filed by Chevron without concluding that Donziger's intent in doing so was to put political pressure on the court. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Whatever the legal and p.r. tactics on both sides, the key question now is: Will Chevron ultimately have to pay? Legal experts interviewed by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/world/americas/15ecuador.html?_r=1#h%5B%5D\">Times\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.forbes.com/danielfisher/2011/02/15/chevron-ecuador-plaintiffs-face-tough-sell-in-u-s/\">Forbes\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-02-15/chevron-s-ecuador-award-unenforceable-analysts-say.html\">Bloomberg\u003c/a> sound dubious. Some quotes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\n\"It’s probably unenforceable. I wouldn’t want to say $8 billion is insignificant in any way, shape or form for Chevron, because it’s not, but given the lack of local assets, Ecuador is going to have difficulty enforcing this.”\u003cbr>\n--Mark Gilman, an analyst at Benchmark Co. in New York\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s cheaper for Chevron to pay the lawyers than to pay for the lawsuit. It’s a simple business case for them.”\u003cbr>\n--William Adams, portfolio manager at Resilience AG in Zurich\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Whether any portion of the claims will be paid by Chevron is less clear.”\u003cbr>\n--David M. Uhlmann, University of Michigan environmental law professor\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It might as well be Monopoly money, given all the respect that Chevron will show it. There is a legal regime for enforcing foreign judgments but there is a lot of discretion for U.S. judges to suspend the enforcement of foreign judgments.”\u003cbr>\n--Ralph G. 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