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雪佛龙上诉厄瓜多尔判决

SAN RAMON, Calif., Mar. 11, 2011--雪佛龙Corporation (NYSE: CVX) has appealed the judgment entered last month against the company by the Provincial Court of Justice of Sucumbíos in Lago Agrio, Ecuador in a lawsuit alleging that Texaco Petroleum Company’s participation in a state-controlled oil consortium prior to 1990 makes Chevron responsible for environmental impacts in the area. In the filing, Chevron details the pattern of fraud by the plaintiffs’ lawyers, supporters and others that has corrupted the trial, as well as the numerous legal and factual defects in the judgment.

除了在厄瓜多尔提出上诉外，雪佛龙还继续通过厄瓜多尔境外的法律程序寻求追索。在2009年雪佛龙根据美国-厄瓜多尔双边投资条约（BIT）发起的一项仲裁中，海牙的一个法庭于2月9日发布命令，要求厄瓜多尔在法庭作出进一步命令，包括法庭对案情的最终裁决之前，采取一切可支配的措施，阻止Lago Agrio判决的执行。3月7日，美国纽约南区地方法院对Lago Agrio的原告、他们的律师以及与他们一致的人发布了初步禁令，禁止他们试图执行Lago Agrio判决，等待美国法院对雪佛龙关于Lago Agrio判决不可执行的主张作出决议。

通过在美国进行的证据开示程序，雪佛龙公司获得了数千份文件，这些文件记录了原告律师向法官施压，迫使他们做出有利于自己的裁决、败坏专家报告和制造证据的努力。

雪佛龙的上诉指出，有证据表明原告律师伪造了数据，并向科学专家施压，要求他们在不存在污染的地方“找到污染”。原告律师还促成了一名据称中立的“全球专家”的任命，该专家由原告律师聘请并支付报酬，以冒充斯特拉图斯和原告其他顾问撰写的损害赔偿报告。由于这一计划在美国法院的发现程序中被曝光，原告律师后来试图通过雇用另一家美国公司以新的名称重新包装数据和结论来掩盖欺诈行为。尽管法院声称它通过不考虑欺诈性的“全球专家”报告纠正了这一不当行为，但判决依据的是该报告中提供的数据和结论。

As the company states in its appeal, the court ignored the valid scientific evidence. All legitimate expert reports in the case concluded that the areas remediated by Texaco Petroleum Company pose no significant risk of harm to human health or the environment. Besides the evidence of fraud and corruption, Chevron’s appeal sets forth numerous additional grounds for reversal, establishing that the judgment is contrary to the facts and law, including:

• The court disregarded the effect of prior settlement agreements between Texaco’s subsidiary, Texaco Petroleum Company and the national, provincial and municipal governments of Ecuador, which released Texaco Petroleum Company and its affiliates, including Chevron, from all further environmental liability.
• The court based its judgment on an unlawful, retroactive application of Ecuador’s Environmental Management Act, which was enacted in 1999, after Texaco Petroleum Company ceased operations in Ecuador and after it was released from all potential liability for environmental impact.
• The court refused to consider Petroecuador’s responsibility for environmental impacts as the majority owner of the consortium from 1976 to 1992, and as the sole and exclusive owner and operator of greatly expanded operations in the area from 1992 to the present.
• 法院无视雪佛龙提交的证据，转而依赖原告指定专家提交的偏颇和不可靠的证据——原告自己承认的证据是不足的。法院在多个场合声称，显示没有污染的样品提供了污染的证据，例如，报告所引用的测试结果显示没有检测到汞的汞的“令人震惊的水平”。
• The court awarded $5.396 billion for soil remediation, nearly double the grossly inflated amount in the fraudulent “global expert” report, five to eleven times greater than what plaintiffs’ own specialist proposed, and 171 times higher than the amount Petroecuador estimated was necessary to remediate a larger area.
• 法院判决6亿美元用于修复声称的地下水污染，但没有引用一个地下水样本显示石油相关污染，并且无视原告一再承认没有此类证据。
• The court awarded $1.4 billion for “mitigation measures” to address public health — despite the court’s admission that no individual health problems had been identified, and without providing any basis for the amount of the award. Indeed, the court added an equally arbitrary $800 million for alleged “excess” cases of cancer, even though the court admitted that no individual claims of cancer had been made, and there is no proof in the record of the case showing a cause-and-effect relationship between proximity to oil-producing activities and an increased risk of cancer.
• 除非雪佛龙公司公开道歉，否则法院将追加86.46亿美元的赔偿金，这违反了厄瓜多尔不承认此类赔偿金的法律。通过实施这一裁决，法院实际上惩罚了雪佛龙数十亿美元，因为它行使了为自己辩护的基本权利。

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Published: March 2011