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Paolo123

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1. I don't get the racism angle at all.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Sep 11, 2014, 09:05 PM

Sep 2014

Chevron, like any corporation, will pay the liabilities that is has to pay and not pay the liabilities that it thinks it can get out of. It has tried it's hardest to get out of BP liabilities and is failing. A court ruling is enforceable.

In Ecuador Chevron is trying not to pay and thinks that even if it fails there is nothing really that Ecuador can do to make it pay. Therefore it is not paying.

Race has nothing to do with it. If Chevron could contaminate Beverly Hills for profit it would.,

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Chevron Racism Toward Ecuador Highlighted by BP Case [View all] Judi Lynn Sep 2014 OP

I don't get the racism angle at all. Paolo123 Sep 2014 #1

Helpful facts within the article: Judi Lynn Sep 2014 #2