Chevron profits shadowed by human rights complaints

SAN RAMON, Calif. (Reuters) – Despite higher profits on record oil prices, the board of directors at Chevron Corp, the No. 2 U.S. petroleum producer, was lambasted at the company’s annual meeting on Wednesday.

Shareholders and activists urged company officials to take responsibility for the environmental and human costs of oil production.


They harangued the board on a range of human rights abuses in such countries as Ecuador, Nigeria and Myanmar.

“You are here comfortably, while other people are dying … Imagine if you were one of them,” said Naw Musi, 30, a Myanmar refugee affiliated with Earth Rights International, a human rights group.

Reuters