Chevron & Cristina's Secret Deal

[Rich One]

One could emit an opinion once Vaca Muerta is producing Shale Oil/Gas at a competitive cost , at least lower than imported Gas in quantities enough to bridge the energy gap---? in 2021? or 2023 ? The rest is poppy cock....!

 

[ghost]

A few highlights from Chevron's rap sheet:

In 1992 Chevron pleaded guilty to criminal and civil charges in connection with violations of the Clean Water Act at an offshore drilling platform in the Santa Barbara Channel and paid $8 million in fines. That same year it paid $1 million in penalties for Clean Air Act violations at its refinery in Philadelphia.

In 1993 Chevron paid $500,000 in fines after pleading no contest to charges of misdemeanor criminal violations of California law in connection with a 1991 oil spill off El Segundo.

Also in 1993 the EPA proposed a fine of $17 million against Chevron for violations of the Toxic Substances Control Act. The dispute was later settled, with Chevron paying only $375,000.

In 1996 Chevron agreed to pay $700,000 to settle charges that its refinery in Perth Amboy, New Jersey violated the Clean Air Act through sulfur dioxide emissions.

In 1997 Chevron agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle U.S. Interior Department civil charges that the company violated critical safety regulations at an offshore drilling platform near Ventura, California.

In 1998 Chevron agreed to pay $540,000 to settle charges brought by EPA that the company bypassed a wastewater treatment system at its Richmond refinery, resulting in toxic releases into the San Pablo Bay over a period of five years.

In 2000 the company paid $7 million to settle charges of Clean Air Act violations at an offshore loading terminal near El Segundo.

In 2001 Chevron agreed to pay $750,000 to settle charges that its oil production facilities in Rangely, Colorado violated the Clean Water Act during a spill in 1995. The company also agreed to make improvements at the site.
In 2001 a group of companies including Chevron settled a lawsuit that had been brought by Communities for a Better Environment over the contamination of ground water in California by the carcinogenic gasoline additive MTBE. In the wake of that agreement Chevron faced a series of other MTBE cases in California and other states. In 2008 Chevron and several other oil majors agreed to pay $422 million to settle suits that had been brought by public water systems in 20 states and consolidated in federal court.

In 2002 Chevron was fined $2 million by the government of Angola for environmental damage caused by leaks in pipes used to transport oil from offshore drilling platforms. A government investigation had found that the pipes were not properly maintained.

In 2003 Chevron reached a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency in which it agreed to spend about $275 million to reduce airborne emissions from five of its U.S. refineries in California, Hawaii, Mississippi and Utah.

In 2004 Chevron Phillips Chemical agreed to pay a $1.8 million civil penalty for Clean Air Act violations that led to two explosions and releases of toxic chemicals at a manufacturing facility in Pasadena, Texas in 1999 and 2000.

In 2007 Chevron agreed to pay $1 million to settle civil charges that had been brought against it by the state of New Jersey in connection with a spill of more than 100,000 gallons of crude oil into Arthur Kill off Perth Amboy in 2006.

In 2009 Chevron was ordered by the United Kingdom Environment Agency to pay a fine of £11,500 in connection with a diesel spill at the company’s Poole Harbor oil terminal three years earlier.

In January 2010 the EPA’s criminal investigation division seized computers and records at Chevron’s oil facilities at Cook Inlet in Alaska. According to the Anchorage Daily News, the agency was investigating whether the company knowingly violated its air pollution permits at the locations.

In April 2010 at least 18,000 gallons of oil were spilled into the waters of the Delta National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana as a result of an accident involving a pipeline owned by a joint venture of Chevron and British Petroleum.
In November 2011 officials in Brazil threatened to revoke Chevron’s license to drill in that country’s waters after an oil spill and then sued the company and its drilling contractor Transocean, seeking $22 billion in damages. (Chevron later agreed to pay about $130 million to settle the matter.)
Chevron reported that as of the end of 2011 it had been identified as a potentially responsible party at about 180 Superfund toxic waste sites in the United States.

In September 2012 the San Francisco Chronicle reported that it had learned that federal authorities had opened a criminal investigation of Chevron after discovering that the company diverted pollutants away from monitoring equipment at its Richmond refinery and burned them off into the atmosphere. The previous month, a series of explosions and fires tore through the Richmond refinery, spewing thick black smoke into the air. In January 2013 the California Division of Occupational Safety & Health announced $963,200 in fines against Chevron for willful and serious violations at the facility. And in August 2013 Chevron entered a no contest plea to six state criminal health and safety charges; it agreed to pay $2 million in restitution and costs and was put on probation for three and a half years.



Of course this is not to mention their death squads in Nigeria, and other human rights violations in Kazakhstan, the Philippines and God knows where else.

Ed: You spew bullshit with such great conviction. The bottom line here is that Argentina is desperate and must dance with the devil. No one else will bring knowledge or $$$$.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Ed: You spew bullshit with such great conviction. The bottom line here is that Argentina is desperate and must dance with the devil. No one else will bring knowledge or $$$$.

Not bullshit, but simply a laundry list of Chevron's undeniable misdeeds. I live just a few miles from their Richmond refinery but, fortunately, the prevailing winds are in the opposite direction; imagine what might happen in an area where the company would be subject to virtually no oversight. Its presence is a function of Argentina's ineptitude in managing its own resources and, in all likelihood, both sides are likely to be disappointed or outraged, as the case may be.

 

[Dublin2BuenosAires]

Chevron are sharp operators, they saw an internationally ioslated country with major issues in the oil world (nationalised YPF scares off even more partners), they knew they could dictate terms and knew they had the capital to do so. These companies operate outside of short term political constraints, they'll be sucking resources out of the country for the own good long after this govt is gone..it's another little parting gift from herself. This crowd had to get funds in to demonstrate progress and that the nationalisation wasn't a mistake. It's more empty PR with damaging long term effects.

 

[EdRooney]

The bottom line here is that Argentina is desperate and must dance with the devil. No one else will bring knowledge or $$$$.

I remember hearing this same line when GWBush and Obama said that we had no other choice but to give trillions to the big banks so they could continue raping the economy. Now it's not the economy but the utter destruction of the climate that they want to get us to buy into because 'there's no other choice'. Well I beg to differ. There are plenty of other options that don't involve destroying our species, such as thermosolar, eolic, biomass, etc. and greater conservation on the other hand. But those options fit neither CFK's nor Chevron's short term goals, so we will continue to be fed the line that there is no other option.

 

[John.St]

Ed: You spew bullshit with such great conviction. The bottom line here is that Argentina is desperate and must dance with the devil. No one else will bring knowledge or $$$$.

I am looking forward to you showing us which items in the list are wrong, documentation included.

 

[ghost]

I am looking forward to you showing us which items in the list are wrong, documentation included.

Sorry you missed the point. All rhetoric aside. I will never provide documents to support Chevron. Chevron did a business deal with a country that has no credit and no credibility. They inserted a poison pill in the deal to cover their a$$. [smart folks]
I could conjure that same list for almost any publicly traded company. Change the terms from pollution to interest rape. From fracking to price fixing.
At the end of the day Chevron will get screwed by this or the next government. In the meantime Argentina is desperate to have something to sell besides corn and soybeans. And Xtina dreams sweet dreams of her place in OPEC

 

[dennisr]

Not bullshit, but simply a laundry list of Chevron's undeniable misdeeds. I live just a few miles from their Richmond refinery but, fortunately, the prevailing winds are in the opposite direction; imagine what might happen in an area where the company would be subject to virtually no oversight. Its presence is a function of Argentina's ineptitude in managing its own resources and, in all likelihood, both sides are likely to be disappointed or outraged, as the case may be.

Every time I return to California for a visit always amazed at the number of gas guzzling FOUR WHEEL drive vehicles that are on the road. Like, WTF. When was the last snow event in Los Angeles or San Francisco? And they, Californikators bitch like hell about the environment, refineries, oil companies.... Dah dah. More money than brains.

 

[ghost]

Every time I return to California for a visit always amazed at the number of gas guzzling FOUR WHEEL drive vehicles that are on the road. Like, WTF. When was the last snow event in Los Angeles or San Francisco? And they, Californikators bitch like hell about the environment, refineries, oil companies.... Dah dah. More money than brains.

I lived in the OC for many years and share your wonderment. You must own a 6000lb SUV to transport the kiddies to day school.

 

[camberiu]

Every time I return to California for a visit always amazed at the number of gas guzzling FOUR WHEEL drive vehicles that are on the road. Like, WTF. When was the last snow event in Los Angeles or San Francisco? And they, Californikators bitch like hell about the environment, refineries, oil companies.... Dah dah. More money than brains.

That is why they keep voting for Dianne Feinstein. The spice....I mean, the oil, must flow.