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    An increased demand for oil has led oil associations to become desperate in finding new oil manufacturers. Unfortunately, the Amazon is oil rich and the extraction has created a lot of implications for the environment and culture existing in the Amazon. The Amazon is home to many natural resources due to its vegetation that continuously recycles carbon dioxide into oxygen. Some of the world 's most promising oil and gas deposits lie deep in the tropical rainforests, especially in the Western Amazon

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    a corporation being lack of ethical accountable. According to Singer (1999; online), in 1994, six African-Americans workers of Texaco claimed that they were racially discriminated by Texaco for being not promoted at an equivalent rate as the equally qualified Caucasian staff and paid less when coping with an equivalent works and responsibilities as those employees. Texaco had been

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    The Sherman Antitrust Act broke apart Standard oil into several pieces in 1911, and one of these pieces, named Standard Oil Co. of California, would later become Chevron. It was a part of the “Seven Sisters”, which dominated the oil industry on a global level in the early 20th century. Standard oil of California could only use the name when it was in California, and so it adopted the name Chevron. In 1933, Saudi Arabia Granted the company a concession to find oil, which led to the discovery of oil

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    classifications, promotions, layoffs, recruitment, training/apprenticeship programs, and leave decided based on race. Federal Laws Prohibiting Job Discrimination (EEOC). These racial discrimination practices comes at high cost for society. Large companies like Texaco, Coca-Cola and Merrill Lynch have had to pay millions of dollars to compensate the victims of race discrimination and to pay for their own responsibility in encouraging or allowing a discriminatory atmosphere to flourish in the workplace. However

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    management of companies has the responsibilities beyond normal duties to ensure a high return for stockholders. Investments should always carry high criteria before making the investment because people’s livelihood depends on it. In this case, stockholders Texaco and SoCal invested in an oil company named Caltrex to give them a high return of its investment although the trust was severed by racism and government greed lend to an end result of sense of unjust ethics

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    Jenny Melin INT 203 Dr. Stephen Haymes Indigenous Struggle for a Life with Dignity in the Ecuadorian Amazon In this paper I argue that lawsuit filed against ChevronTexaco for dumping 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater, spilling roughly 17 millions gallons of crude oil, and leaving hazardous waste in hundreds of open pits dug out of the forest floor have affected more than the ecosystem of the Ecuadorian Amazon. ChevronTexaco has also completely threatened the Ecuadorian indigenous people’s

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    ExxonMobil is the largest publicly traded oil and gas producing company. ExxonMobil does business in 200 countries world-wide (1). Some countries are designated for exploring gas and petroleum, and some are designated for manufacturing chemicals, lubricants, and market fuels (1). ExxonMobil 's world-class petroleum portfolio gives access to proven reserves of 21.9 billion oil-equivalent barrels of oil and gas, which is the highest in the industry (1). The company 's discovered resources consist

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    fluctuating towards the $3 mark, there is little room to raise prices. Consumers will not pay 25 cents more for a gallon of gas. Although Chevron Texaco and ExxonMobil make have a slight difference in price at the pump, the will not try to do anything to rock the boat.      Chevron Texaco, or Texaco Shell, is the leading competitor to ExxonMobil. Texaco is in the same areas of business as Exxon. Their petroleum products and lubricants are sold in the same markets, stores, and in many cases opposite

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    agreement with Chevron in 1933 covering the whole eastern region of Saudi Arabia. Faced with such difficulties exploring job, Chevron had to sell 50% of the concession to Texaco. Surprisingly, that area became the richest oil area, and it still is even today. Interconnecting with the USA: It was vital to nationalize Chevron and Texaco due to many factors. First, the two companies were concerned that the Nazi move might come through the Persian Gulf. Another factor was the

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    2016). The government of Ecuador partnered with an American corporation, Texaco, later to be bought by Chevron (A.R Sorkin with N.Banerjee, 16 October,

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