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A number of prominent US environmental and human rights organizations including Amazon Watch, the Sierra Club, 350.org and Food and Water Watch have issued a public letter condemning Chevron's actions in its decades-long legal battle to evade responsibility for dumping toxic wastewater into the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador.
"Chevron's actions set a dangerous precedent and represent a growing and serious threat to the ability of civil society to hold corporations accountable for their misdeeds around the world," the groups state in the letter.
In 2011, Chevron lost the legal battle in Ecuador and was ordered to pay $9.5bn for cleanup operations. Although the decision was recently upheld by Ecuador's supreme court, Chevron has refused to pay.
Earlier this week the communities affected by the contamination in Ecuador achieved a significant victory in their legal battle when an Ontario appeals court ruled they have the right to pursue enforcement of a $9.5bn Ecuadorian court judgment against Chevron's estimated $15bn in assets in Canada.
However, Chevron has sworn to "fight until hell freezes over, and then fight it out on the ice."
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