{"id":206,"date":"2015-07-06T08:48:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T08:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/?p=206"},"modified":"2015-07-06T08:48:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T08:48:46","slug":"hell-froze-over-as-argentina-embargoes-chevrons-2-billion-in-assets-the-chevron-pit-contaminated-the-rain-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"Hell Froze Over As Argentina Embargoes Chevron&#8217;s $2 Billion In Assets ~ The Chevron Pit &#8211; Contaminated the Rain Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thechevronpit.blogspot.com\/2012\/11\/hell-froze-over-as-argentina-embargoes.html\">Hell Froze Over As Argentina Embargoes Chevron&#8217;s $2 Billion In Assets ~ The Chevron Pit &#8211; Contaminated the Rain Forest<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>EXCERPT:<\/p>\n<p>Posted on Thursday, November 08, 2012<br \/>\nYesterday, hell froze over when an Argentine court embargoed or, in effect, froze up to potentially $19 billion in Chevron assets in the South American country.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s time to fight it out on the ice.<\/p>\n<p>Chevron, which now has about $2 billion in assets in Argentina, has sworn it will never pay a dime to cleanup the contamination it left behind in the Ecuadorian rainforest. Said former General Counsel Charles James: &#8220;Not till hell freezes over, and then we will fight it out on the ice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chevron has defied Ecuador&#8217;s courts, refusing to pay an enforceable $19 billion judgment and forcing the Ecuadorians to file lawsuits to seize assets in Ecuador, Brazil, Canada and Argentina to obtain the damage award for one of the world&#8217;s largest oil-related environmental disasters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hell Froze Over As Argentina Embargoes Chevron&#8217;s $2 Billion In Assets ~ The Chevron Pit &#8211; Contaminated the Rain Forest EXCERPT: Posted on Thursday, November 08, 2012 Yesterday, hell froze over when an Argentine court embargoed or, in effect, froze up to potentially $19 billion in Chevron assets in the South American country. Now it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-posts","category-water-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}