Press Coverage: Chevron and the Yadana Pipeline

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Press Coverage: Chevron and the Yadana Pipeline

ERI Statements to the Press

Human Cost of Energy Press Release [1]
“An Industry Blind to People’s Tears," [1] op-ed by Matthew Smith
“The Hunt for Energy at Any Cost,” [2] op-ed by Matthew Smith & Naing Htoo
ERI’s statement in response to ChevronTexaco's acquisition of Unocal [3]

Yadana In The News

"Chevron Tries to Whitewash Its Website of Burma" [4] (BusinessWire)
"Chevron's Dilemma Over Its Stake in Burma [5]" (SFGate, online edition of San Francisco Chronicle)
"Chinese to Join Burma Oil, Gas Exploration" [6] (The Irrawaddy)
"Watchdog Group Says Chevron Complicit in Myanmar" Reuters wire story [7] picked up by NY Times
"Killings Alleged by Chevron's Burma Pipeline" [8] San Francisco Chronicle
"Burma: US Oil Major Complicit in Abuses - Rights Lobby" [9]
IPS Story out of Bangkok
"Chevron 'Helping' Myanmar Army" [10] South African Press Association wire story out of Bangkok
"Rights group says US energy giant complicit in Burma abuses" [11]
ABC Radio Australia News
VOA News [12] - 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 [13]
The Human Security Gateway [14]
Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia [15]
Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire [16]

Radio

"Underreported: Chevron in Burma" [17] - 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) [18]
"Total's Pipeline Totally Funds Burmese Totalitarism" [19] - Le Soir French-Language Belgian News
"When Tiger Met Chevron" [20] The Nation criticizes Tiger Woods' partnership with Chevron
"Bush Unveils New Burma Sanctions" [21] BBC News

Documents:

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ERI's Op-ed in the Bangkok Post [22]

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The Politics of Doing Business With a Brutal Regime [23]

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Total and Chevron (French) [24]

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Enlaces:
[1] http://www.earthrights.org/files/Burma%20Project/BKKPost%20op-ed%209.15.07.pdf
[2] http://www.earthrights.org/files/Burma%20Project/BKKPost-PoliticsOf...11.15.07.pdf
[3] http://www.earthrights.org/campaigns/burma-project/earthrights-international-statement-regarding-chevrontexacos-acquisition-uno
[4] http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20081029006370&newsLang=en
[5] http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/04/MNS311I24I.DTL&feed=rss.business
[6] http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=12408
[7] http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2850022820080429
[8] http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/28/BUIO10D8C0.DTL&hw=Chevron&sn=001&sc=1000
[9] http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42179
[10] http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/c0e55f4a0c33452e901ce899c68e2acd/29-04-2008-10-08/Chevron_helping_Myanmar_army
[11] http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200805/s2232579.htm?tab=latest
[12] http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/a-21-n2008-04-29-voa40-63170862.html
[13] http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/831891
[14] http://www.humansecuritygateway.com/showRecord.php?RecordId=23987
[15] http://csr-asia.com/index.php?id=11686
[16] http://www.csrwire.com/News/12051.html
[17] http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2008/may/01/
[18] http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/31/news/UN-GEN-UN-Myanmar.php
[19] http://www.earthrights.org/files/Burma%20Project/Yadana/Le%20Soir%20-%20Total%20and%20Chevron%20%28French%29%205.23.08.pdf
[20] http://www.thenation.com/issue/june-9-2008
[21] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7378725.stm
[22] http://www.earthrights.org/sites/default/files/documents/BKKPost%20op-ed%209.15.07.pdf
[23] http://www.earthrights.org/sites/default/files/documents/BKK-Post-Politics-Of.pdf
[24] http://www.earthrights.org/sites/default/files/documents/Le-Soir-Total-and-Chevron-%28French%29-5-23-08.pdf