Chevron Anti-Racism Tweet Sparks Accusations of Hypocrisy – The Energy Mix
just that—humans, and we’ve felt the impact of what is happening in the
United States around racial injustice,” tweeted the fossil fuel giant.
“Our company is rooted in a diverse and inclusive culture, but we also
understand it is our time to listen and learn.”
California-based environmental
justice organization Communities for a Better Environment offered an
acid rebuke: “Your performative solidarity with the Black community is
an absolute joke,” they posted. “You should be ashamed of yourself for
killing, poisoning, and ruining the health and lives of Black people all
over the world.”
Nowhere in evidence in Chevron’s
recent protestations of its present and future commitment to taking
action “in the ugly face of racism, discrimination, and injustice” is a
sense of shame or recognition of its role in those harms. Those notes
are also distinctly absent from the official verbiage about diversity
and inclusion that adorns its website, writes InsideClimate.In case you have forgotten:
Chevron wins Ecuador rainforest ‘oil dumping’ case. An international tribunal in The Hague has ruled in favour of the US oil company, Chevron, in an environmental dispute with the government of Ecuador. … The court said that the 2011 Ecuador Supreme Court ruling had been obtained through fraud, bribery and corruption.