Chevron Used Secret Lab to Hide Dirty Soil Samples from Ecuador Court

Situations like this erode public confidence in corporate ethics. I hope that in 20 years cover ups like this will be considered unacceptable and criminal. At the end of the day organizations are made up of humans, and someone in there made conscious decisions to falsify documentation and perjure judicial procedures. It is cases like this that will hopefully lead to a shift in corporate transparency and ethics:

“In an ever more stunning expose of Chevron's fraud before the Ecuador court, a U.S. federal judge has ordered the disclosure of documents that demonstrate Chevron used a secret lab in the United States to hide the existence of dirty soil samples taken from the company's contaminated former well sites in the Amazon. The documents also show that Chevron's scientific experts in the Ecuador trial -- one of whom is a respected professor at the University of California -- executed a scheme that guaranteed the company would find only "clean" soil samples from contaminated well sites while all "dirty" samples would be sent to a lab called NewFields, where they would not be disclosed to the court.”


http://www.csrwire.com/press_releases/33536-Chevron-Used-Secret-Lab-to-Hide-Dirty-Soil-Samples-from-Ecuador-Court-Say-Company-Documents-