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Is Trump set to invade Venezuela?

Kerry Smith — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:15:00 +1000

�鶹��ý’s Kerry Smith speaks to Federico Fuentes, a regular GL writer on Venezuela and long-time solidarity activist, about the significance of United States President Donald Trump’s deployment of warships throughout the Caribbean — and why it must be opposed.

‘Workers will bear the brunt of Trump’s Venezuela policy’

Salvador De León — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 23:00:00 +1000

To best understand the complex relationship between the Donald Trump and Nicolás Maduro governments, Federico Fuentes spoke to Salvador De León, a member of the Autonomous and Independent Workers’ Committee based in the city of Maracaibo, a major oil hub in Venezuela.

Trump allows Chevron to operate in Venezuela, doubles reward for Maduro’s arrest

Federico Fuentes — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:15:00 +1000

United States policy towards Venezuela took another surprising turn with the announcement that US oil giant Chevron could return to the South American nation, reports Federico Fuentes.

Join the boycott actions against Caltex and Chevron

Zara Lomas — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:30:00 +1000

Chevron rakes in billions of dollars a year from exploiting Israeli-claimed fossil gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, which generate hundreds of millions of dollars of tax revenue for Israel. Zara Lomas reports.

Climate scientists sound new warning over devastating warming

Colin Hughes — Mon, 13 May 2024 14:30:00 +1000

On the day that climate scientists said the world is heading for 2.5°C global warming, Labor announced it would accelerate major new fossil fuel projects beyond 2050. Colin Hughes reports.

US to renew Chevron’s Venezuela licence

Andreína Chávez Alava — Thu, 26 May 2022 15:15:00 +1000

Andreína Chávez Alava reports that United States President Joe Biden's administration has authorised Chevron to negotiate its licence and “the terms of potential future activities in Venezuela” with Venezuelan state oil company, PDVSA.

Australia: a rogue state promoting climate catastrophe

Sam Wainwright — Fri, 18 May 2018 14:00:00 +1000

It is bad enough that Australia is not on track to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 26–28% on 2005 levels by 2030, as it is notionally committed to doing, but according to the government's own figures, it is only set to reduce them by 5%. What makes it worse is that even the 26–28% target is very conservative and unlikely to be sufficient.

In truth, wealthy industrialised countries like ours should be seeking to become net zero emission economies and societies, both because we can and because it is simply not worth gambling with the continued existence of life as we know it.

Chevron abandons drilling plans in Great Australian Bight

Kerry Smith — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:00:00 +1100

Chevron has become the second big oil company to abandon plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight off the South Australian coast, a year after BP cancelled its plans to drill.

Oil companies say the Bight has similar potential to the Gulf of Mexico, site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010, which was the largest marine oil spill in history and killed 11 people.

BP pulls out of oil drilling in Great Australian Bight

Tess Purling — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 10:00:00 +1000

BP’s recent decision to pull out of a plan to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight has been dubbed “strategic” by the company’s exploration managing director, Claire Fitzpatrick.

Chevron loses landmark tax case against ATO

Jim McIlroy — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 10:00:00 +1000

US multinational energy corporation Chevron faces an increased tax bill of $340 million after losing an appeal against the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), over a landmark profit-shifting case.

The full Federal Court on April 21 unanimously upheld a previous decision that Chevron engaged in illegitimate transfer pricing by paying a higher rate of interest on a loan from its subsidiary to shift profits from Australia to the US.

Ecuadoreans go to Canada to collect Chevron compensation

TeleSUR English — Sat, 17 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +1000

Ecuadorean indigenous groups’ years-long court battle to force oil giant Chevron to pay US$9.5 billion in damages for the environmental disaster known as the “Amazon Chernobyl” began a new phase on September 12 — this time in Canada.

Plaintiffs from Ecuador have been trying for years to collect damages it won in its 2011 lawsuit against Chevron in a court in Ecuador, where the multinational oil giant no longer has assets that can be seized.

Chevron wins case against Ecuador's indigenous people over oil spill

Tony Iltis — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 10:00:00 +1000

A United States federal appeals court ruled on August 8 in favour of the oil giant Chevron in a case that dates back more than 20 years. The ruling blocks an Ecuadorean indigenous community from collecting a judgement of nearly US$8.6 billion for environmental damage to the Amazon rainforest.

Ecuador: Chevron's 'rainforest Chernobyl' – victims fight for compensation

Denis Rogatyuk — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 11:00:00 +1100

It won’t come as a surprise to many readers that Chevron is not the most honest or law-abiding company in the world. In Australia, the International Transport Workers Federation has exposed over $35 billion in unpaid tax revenue for its offshore gas operations, while the Maritime Union of Australia has repeatedly protested the company’s exploitation of immigrant labour.

Too cool for school

Sam Wainwright — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +1000

"Cool fuel" was the groovy title of the Ed! supplement about natural gas in the April 5 edition of The West Australian that gets distributed to all our schools. To be sure natural gas is "cool" when liquefied. But nowhere among the topics covered, such as "Careers in LNG", "Power to You" and "West is best" is there any mention of natural gas as a significant contributor to catastrophic global warming. Nor does it mention that because of fugitive emissions in the production cycle natural gas is up there with coal as a carbon polluter.

Protests against BP’s plans to drill for oil in Great Australian Bight

Chris Peterson — Fri, 22 May 2015 10:00:00 +1000

About 100 people rallied at Glenelg in Adelaide to protest against plans by oil company British Petroleum to explore for oil in the Great Australian Bight.

Ecuador: Chevron battles to avoid oil spill compensation

Tony Iltis — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 10:00:00 +1000

Oil giant Chevron Corp is fighting to avoid paying compensation awarded to about 30,000 Ecuadorean citizens severely affected by the dumping of billions of gallons of toxic waste in the Amazon.

Ecuador: Chevron-Texaco profits from ecocide

Coral Wynter — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 11:00:00 +1100

The huge multinational US oil corporation Texaco operated in Ecuador from 1964 until 1992 (Texaco merged with Chevron in 2001). The corporation poured 72 billion litres of oil waste and 45 million litres of crude oil over 2 million hectares of land in Santa Elena province — land which included the Amazon rainforest, rivers and agricultural land. Texaco just poured the oil into ground-connected pipes which just poured oil directly into the rivers and forests.