In an ominous suggestion of an expected adverse ruling worth up to 27 billion dollars, Chevron's Charles James, its odious, partisan, nature-hating, dirty-dealing lead attorney, got sacked last week.
The oil spill case is a landmark one in which, with the help of a crack US legal team, a case brought by the affected tribes in the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador got traction. Serious traction of global import, since until now, big US corporations always told little South American countries what to do.
Alas - for those whose arrogance allowed them to stride over science in their greed for global conquest - Science, now that the Big Lie sign has been turned off, has won. Or nearly won. The actual final judgment hasn't been made. But it looks very likely that Chevron will lose, over dumping 18 billion gallons of fouled water into the biological treasure house of the Amazon.
Meanwhile we can cheer at the declawing of a major a-hole.
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