MEDIA ADVISORY - Chevron Experts Speakers List
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Interviewee contact list.
Contacts:
For More Information: Global Exchange www.GlobalExchange.org/chevron
True Cost of Chevron Network www.TrueCostofChevron.com
IH = In Houston
Primary Alternative Annual Report Contact Person:
IH - Antonia Juhasz
Global Exchange
Lead author & editor, The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report; Chevron Corporate Basics; Alternative Energy Investments; and Lobbying/Political Profile, Overview of all issues.
COAL
John Kinney
Black Warrior River Keeper
Birmingham, AL
Issue: Chevron coal production
Environmental/public health devastation.
IH - Elouise Brown (Navajo)
Dooda Desert Rock
San Juan, New Mexico
Issue: Chevron coal production
Environmental/public health devastation.
Likely IH – Brad Morhmann
Powder River Basin Sierra Club
Sheridan, WY
Issue: Proposed new Chevron Coal Mine, first new mine in Powder River Basin in 15 years in already devastated area. Chevron’s current WY mine, Kemmerer, was recently named one of the most dangerous mines in America.
REFINERIES
California
IH - Jesse Marquez
Coalition for a Safe Environment
Los Angeles, CA
Issue: Chevron El Segundo Refinery
Health and environmental danger to community.
IH - Jessica Tovar &
IH – Reverend Ken Davis
Communities for a Better Environment
Oakland, CA
IH – Dr. Henry Clark
West County Toxics Coalition
Richmond, CA
Issue: Chevron Richmond Refinery, largest Green House Gas Emitter in State of California; in serious non-compliance for air standards; public health, environmental, and economic abuse of community. Recent major victory by local community against Chevron blocking it from refining heavier more polluting crude after years of struggle.
Mississippi
Steve Shepard &
IH - Miranda Vandermeulen
Gulf Coast Sierra Club
Gautier, MS
Issue: Pascagoula Refinery, health and environmental danger to community.
Utah
Jenna Helf
Former Chevron Field Operator
Salt Lake City Refinery
Salt Lake City, UT
Issue: Former worker horribly injured in preventable accident. Suit against Chevron at Utah Supreme Court.
OFFSHORE PRODUCTION
Alaska
Bob Shavelson &
IH - Tom Evans (Native Alaskan)
CookInlet Keepers
Homer, AK
Issue: Chevron’s heavily polluting offshore oilrigs.
Texas
IH - Bryan Parras
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (TEJAS)
Houston, TX
Issue: Chevron in Houston, Chevron Phillips Chemical facility spews toxic waste harming communities; Chevron offshore operations threaten Gulf.
Not sure IH - Luke Metzger
Environment Texas
Austin, TX
Issue: Lawsuit against Chevron Phillips Chemical facility for mass toxic pollution.
Offshore Drilling – U.S. Gulf Coast & More
Antonia Juhasz
Global Exchange
San Francisco, CA
Issues: Chevron’s massive offshore drilling operations and plans for more threaten climate, environment, coastal communities, livelihoods, and more.
INTERNATIONAL
Angola
IH - Elias Mateus Isaac
Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa
Luanda, Angola
& Kirstin Reed
University of California
Issue: Support of brutal dictatorship engaged in gross human rights abuse; environmental & public health devastation; economic abuse.
Australia
IH - Neil McKenzie (Indigenous Traditional Owner - Aborigines)
IH - Joshua Coates
The Wilderness Society of Western Australia
West Perth, Australia
Issue: Proposed enormous new LNG facility to destroy indigenous land; environment; economy; native species habitat, including endangered whales.
Teri Shore
Turtle Island Restoration Network
Forest Knolls, CA
Issue: Chevron current and proposed Australian and current U.S. offshore operations in the Gulf of Mexico threaten habitat of endangered sea turtles.
Burma
IH - Paul Donowitz &
IH - Naing Htoo
EarthRights International
Washington, DC and Thailand
Issue: Chevron’s Burma operations.
With Total, Chevron is the single largest financial contributor to the Burmese Junta and the only major U.S. Corporation still operating in Burma.
Canada
Eriel Deranger (Dene indigenous First Nation)
Rainforest Action Network
George Poitras (Mikisew Cree indigenous First Nation)
Alberta, Canada
Issue: Chevron expanding already extensive operations in Alberta tarsands harming indigenous communities, environment, climate, livelihoods, health.
Colombia/Venezuela
IH - Debora Barros Fince (Indigenous Wayuu) (Spanish speaker only)
Organizacion Wayuu Munsurat
La Guajira, Colombia
Issue: Chevron former coal production and current natural gas production and pipeline harm environment and economic survivability of indigenous Wayuu of Colombia & Venezuela.
(Only speaks Spanish)
Ecuador
IH - Han Shan &
IH - Mitchell Anderson
Amazon Watch
San Francisco, CA
Maria Ramos &
IH - Ginger Cassady
Rainforest Action Network
San Francisco, CA
IH - Ecuadorian indigenous leaders who are plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Chevron will be in Houston and available for interviews in Spanish or with English translation.
Issue: World’s largest oil spill in the Ecuadorian Amazon from Texaco’s operations. Chevron has been fighting Ecuadorians in court since acquiring Texaco in 2001. Facing largest potential liability against any corporation in world history - $27 billion in damages for environmental and public health devastation.
Indonesia
Hariansyah Usman & Pius Ginting
Friends of the Earth Indonesia (WALHI)
Jakarta, Indonesia
Issue: Chevron’s Indonesian operations, human rights abuse, displacement, environmental and public health danger to community
Iraq
IH - Thomas J. Buonomo
Former U.S. Army Intelligence Officer
Member, Iraq Veterans Against the War
San Francisco, CA
Issue: Chevron’s pursuit of Iraqi oil through U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Kazakhstan/Turkmenistan/Azerbaijan
IH - Michelle Kinman &
IH - Sergey Solyanik
Crude Accountability
Alexandria, VA and Kazakhstan
Issues: Chevron in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, massive environmental and public health disasters, displacement.
Nigeria
IH - Emem Okon
Kebetkache Women Development & Resource Centre
Nigeria
IH - Sowore Omoyele
Nigerian human rights activist
New York, NY
IH - Laura Livoti &
Abby Rubinson
Justice In Nigeria Now
San Francisco, CA
Issue: gross human rights abuse, environmental, public health, and livelihood devastation, flaring.
Philippines
IH - Aileen Suzara
Filipino-American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity
San Francisco, CA
Issue: Oil depot in the heart of Manilla, security, environmental, & public health threat.
Issue: Chevron oil depot in the Philippines, environmental public health danger to community.
Thailand
IH - Sayamol Kaiyoorawong
Project for Ecological Awareness Building
Muang, Trang, Thailand
Issue: Environmental & public health devastation; economic and livelihood abuse.
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