US EditionLatest Twist in Chevron’s Amazon Pollution Saga: Ecuador Ordered to Pay the Oil Company $220 Million
Ecuador agrees to pay $220 million to Chevron after a Hague arbitration, far less than the $9.5 billion court judgment against the company for Amazon pollution.
- On Monday, Ecuadorian Attorney General Diana Salazar Méndez announced the government will pay about $220 million to Chevron following arbitration at the Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration.
- A $9.5 billion Ecuadorian court judgment established the case's legal foundation, as Ecuadorian courts found Chevron deliberately dumped toxic waste devastating Indigenous and rural communities of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
- Six public appellate courts, including the Supreme Courts of Ecuador and Canada, found Chevron deliberately dumped billions of gallons of oil waste contaminating rivers used by thousands of affected people.
- Advocacy groups and plaintiffs condemned the decision, with UDAPT calling it `The reality is it is a defeat for justice,` while Chevron and Ecuadorian Attorney General Diana Salazar Méndez praised the resolution.
- Critics say the payment amounts to environmental racism and a taxpayer-funded bailout, while advocacy groups and plaintiffs insist a debt is owed to Amazonian families awaiting truth, justice and full reparation.
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ecotopical.comLatest Twist in Chevron’s Amazon Pollution Saga: Ecuador Ordered to Pay the Oil Company $220 Million
Indigenous and other Ecuadorians have lived with millions of gallons of toxic pollution from Texaco’s operations for decades. Now, those victims’ tax dollars will go to Chevron, which acquired Texaco in 2001.
‘Defeat for justice’: Ecuador to pay Amazon-polluting Chevron $220 million
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Dec. 09, 2025. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. A US advocacy group, American human rights lawyer Steven Donziger, and the group in Ecuador behind a historic legal battle against Chevron over its dumping of toxic waste in the Amazon rainforest are condemning the Ecuadorian government’s plans to pay the oil giant hundreds of millions of dollars due to an arbit…
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readingeagleQUITO (AP) — Ecuador and the U.S. company Chevron held a ruling on Tuesday by a European court that ordered the South American country to pay $220 million in a judicial dispute that has been going on for more than 30 years.
Ecuador will have to pay 220 million dollars to the oil company Chevron, after an arbitral tribunal reduced the compensation of 3.350 million dollars that the company had claimed since 2018, according to the Attorney General's Office (PGE, Attorney General of the State).
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