Peter Foster: The 'fraud of the century' finally reaches the end of the line after clogging up our court system for 7 years

Protesters demonstrate in front of a United States courthouse against Chevron on Oct. 15, 2013 in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images files

It is clear, the ‘fraud of the century’ finally reaches the end of the line after obstructing the Canadian judicial system for 7 years

And after obstructing the Canadian judicial system for seven years, the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario finally dismissed a totally corrupt multimillion-dollar lawsuit against California-based oil company Chevron on behalf of “poor Ecuadorean villagers.”

It is important to mention the lawsuit, nicknamed “the fraud of the century” by The Wall Street Journal, related to the contamination caused by Texaco, a company that Chevron acquired in 2001 when Texaco had been operating in Ecuador before 1992. Likewise, it is It is timely to mention that a classmate of Barack Obama, Donziger designed a sentence of 9,500 million dollars against Chevron in Ecuador. Being that he did not have problems to recruit the then Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa for the cause. Correa, who would be a typical left-wing caudillo who was already very familiar with environmental blackmail.

Belated but apparently advancing justice

An important fact to bring up and that should not be left aside is that in 2010, the government, with the support of the United Nations, suggested that, unless the international community would pay Ecuador 3.6 billion dollars, he would have no choice but to destroy his own tropical forest. The international community objected.

Likewise, it is necessary to mention that for its moment Donziger recruited a number of celebrities from list B, among them Danny Glover, Mia Farrow and Trudie Styler (Mrs. Sting), to be escorted to the alleged “Chernobyl of the Amazon” and Express the necessary indignation.

Now, regarding the poor Ecuadorian natives, it is considered that they could be worse than ever. Even so, it is necessary to remember why they were poor because they have lived under a corrupt socialist regime where the rule of law is too often everything that attends to political power, public prejudice or judicial activism.

In addition, it has been established that the lesson here is not just that justice rides slowly, it is that the most unfounded cases, especially if they involve the words “indigenous” and “environment,” can tie the business for years. That being the case, Canadian pipeline companies already know this.

Thus, it has been said that the courts have become not so much remedies against extortion as in conduits for it.

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Source: Peter Foster | Financial Post