Chevron's 2008 annual report is a glossy celebration of the company's most profitable year in its history. What Chevron's annual report does not tell its shareholders is the true cost paid for those financial returns, or the global movement gaining voice and strength against Chevron's abuses. Thus, we, the communities and our allies who bear the consequences of Chevron’s oil and natural gas production, refineries, depots, pipelines, exploration, offshore drilling rigs, coal fields, chemical plants, political control, consumer abuse, false promises, and much more, have prepared an Alternative Annual Report for Chevron.
The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report is a one-stop-shop for activists, policy makers, journalists, investors, analysts, and communities in struggle to learn all they need to know about Chevron.
It is the most comprehensive exposé of Chevron’s operations – and the communities in struggle against them – ever compiled. It includes reports from Alaska, California, Colorado, Florida, the Gulf Coast, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Utah, Washington, D.C, and Wyoming; internationally across Angola, Burma, Canada, Chad, Cameroon, Ecuador, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, and the Philippines.
Antonia Juhasz is the lead author and editor of the report, which includes the writings of sixteen additional authors from across the U.S. and around the world, including Mitch Anderson, Nnimmo Bassey, Agostinho Chicaia, Victoria Clark, Stephen E. Cotton, Charlie Cray, David Cullen, Paul Donowitz, Sarah Dotlich, Daniel Herriges, Michelle Kinman, Laura Livoti, Marilyn Langlois, Brant Olson, Aileen Suzara, and Jessica Tovar, and the contributions of dozens of organizations.
The report was sponsored by, and includes the writing of, Amazon Watch, Crude Accountability, Global Exchange, Justice in Nigeria Now, Rainforest Action Network, CorpWatch, Filipino-American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, Trustees for Alaska, Communities for a Better Environment, Mpalabanda, Richmond Progressive Alliance, and EarthRights International.
Learn more at www.TrueCostofChevron.com. It is a visually stunning website using our ChevWrong “Inhumane Energy” ads that reveal the hypocrisy of Chevron’s human energy ad campaign. The report and the ads can be downloaded for free from the website, which also provides action steps, links to the organizations involved in the True Cost of Chevron campaign, and more. Hard copies of the report can also be purchased from Global Exchange by emailing Kirsten Moeller at Kirsten[at]globalexchange.org.
Click HERE to download a preview of the report, including the cover, table of contents, introduction and back cover.
Photo LEFT on report cover image: Fire burning at Chevron Pascagoula, MS refinery, photography by Christie Pritchett ran August 17, 2007. Courtesy of the Press-Register 2007
