Press Coverage: Chevron and the Yadana Pipeline

ERI Statements to the Press

• Human Cost of Energy Press Release
• “An Industry Blind to People’s Tears," op-ed by Matthew Smith
• “The Hunt for Energy at Any Cost,” op-ed by Matthew Smith & Naing Htoo
• ERI’s statement in response to ChevronTexaco's acquisition of Unocal

Yadana In The News

• "Chevron Tries to Whitewash Its Website of Burma" (BusinessWire)
• "Chevron's Dilemma Over Its Stake in Burma" (SFGate, online edition of San Francisco Chronicle)
• "Chinese to Join Burma Oil, Gas Exploration" (The Irrawaddy)
• "Watchdog Group Says Chevron Complicit in Myanmar" Reuters wire story picked up by NY Times
• "Killings Alleged by Chevron's Burma Pipeline" San Francisco Chronicle
  
• "Burma: US Oil Major Complicit in Abuses - Rights Lobby"
  

  IPS Story out of Bangkok 

• "Chevron 'Helping' Myanmar Army" South African Press Association wire story out of Bangkok
  
• "Rights group says US energy giant complicit in Burma abuses"
  

  ABC Radio Australia News

• VOA News - Chinese News Source
  • English translation - "A US organization (EarthRights International) has condemned Chevron and the Burmese government for allowing human rights abuses like forced labor, etc. to happen along the pipeline area."

Industry-Specific News Sources

• "Human Rights Watchdog Hits Out at Chevron for Myanmar Ties" Oil Daily - Energy Intelligence Group
• Business & Human Rights Resource Center
• The Human Security Gateway
• Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia
• Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

Radio

• "Underreported: Chevron in Burma" - ERI's Litigation Coordinator, Rick Herz, appears on WNYC's Lenoard Lopate Show

Related News

• "UN Labor Agency Wars: Forced Labor Could Increase in Cyclone Reconstruction" (International Herald Tribune)
• "Total's Pipeline Totally Funds Burmese Totalitarism" - Le Soir French-Language Belgian News
• "When Tiger Met Chevron" The Nation criticizes Tiger Woods' partnership with Chevron
• "Bush Unveils New Burma Sanctions" BBC News