Chevron Misconducts.

Since I'm from California and cars are our main form of transportation, I decided to look up one of our main gas companies' corporate values: Chevron.

Chevron's mission statement: "We seek to develop a culture in which everyone believes that all incidents are preventable and that 'zero incidents' is possible."

When you look at Chevron's business ethics they seem to be a really respectable company. The website shows that they seem to be a responsible company. In 2007, they took the initiative to identify all their problems; they found 307 problems. In 2009, they fixed 299 of those problems. Sounds good? Of course.

However, when I googgled "Chevron misconducts," an article appeared indicating, that Chevron is not as responsible as they appear. In 2009, Texaco, which was bought by Chevron, dumped billions of toxic into the Amazon waterways in Ecuador. The company would face a $27 million liability charge. Although they did say the would try their best to clean up the waterways, the company participated in some unethical pre-trial behavior. Apparently, Chevron’s lawyers in Ecuador have tried to intimidate and harass the court-appointed expert and took water and soil samples at
higher elevations than the sources of contamination for testing. Additionally, the employees of the company interfered with evidence gathering by fabricating a security threats.

Reading this article makes me a little upset, since I believed Chevron was a trusted company; my parents fill up their cars at Chevron on a weekly basis. I think Chevron should not have done all those things. When I read that the assumed responsibility for the contamination, I was relieved, but when I read that they tried to hide the truth, I felt like I lost a lot of trust. Now, I want to look into all my local gas companies.