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-Caveat Lector- http://www.google.com/search?q=bridas+unocal [US Afg invasion as mercs of Unocal vs Bridas]
http://www.google.com/search?q=bridas+unocal+lawsuit [3 lawsuits, Bridas won $500 mil]
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Unocal
Afghanistan
Unocal has been very involved in the Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkmenistan part of the world. These regions are central to a trans-Afghan pipeline which would grant broad economic and military power throughout the Eurasian landmass. Military decisions in the Balkans by NATO forces mirrored the same concerns of control for these vital areas.
Before Unocal was able to make their first bid in the region, Bridas, an Argentinian oil company headed by an ambitious Carlos Bulgheroni struck a deal with the Rabbani government which gave him a thirty year agreement on an 875 mile pipeline. Bulgheroni looked for partners, among them Unocal, and was turned down. Teaming up with Saudi Arabia's Delta Oil,Russia's Gazprom, and Turkmenistan's state owned Turkmenrozgas, Unocal made their own deals with local leaders in the area.
This led to Turkmenistan blocking exports from some of Bridas' oil fields, which led to three lawsuits filed with the International Chamber of Commerce that Bridas eventually won. They lost the suit against Unocal in Texas, in which they charged them with civil conspiracy and tortuous interference. Unocal was awarded a 918 mile pipeline in October of 1995. The Taliban overthrew the Rabbani government with help from the CIA and Pakistan's ISI. This negated whatever thirty year contract Bulgheroni had with Afghanistan which led him to fight back the only way left. Deal with the Taliban, and their dealings went back and forth until two U.S. embassis were bombed in Africa.
President William J. Clinton initiated a freeze on business deals with the Afghani government as it was and this put a halt to the pipeline. After 9/11, and the subsequent war there, new roads have miraculous opened up for work on huge $3.2 billion deal signed in December of 2002 between Pakistan, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan (whose new president, Hamid Karzai, was a Unocal consultant in 1996-97, working on a feasability study for a pipeline in Afghanistan)[6][7]. Among others working with Unocal in the Afghani region have been: Henry Kissinger, Robert Oakley, Richard Armitage, and Zalmay Khalilzad.[8]; [9]; [10]; [11]
Coalition brands Unocal 'a dangerous scofflaw corporation'Unocal's history is a chronicle of one major oil leak or spill after another. Multinational Monitor named Unocal one of the 10 worst corporations of 1994 and 1998. In September 1998, "a coalition of 30 citizens' groups petitioned then Attorney General of California Dan Lungren to begin charter revocation proceedings against Union Oil Company of California (Unocal)" which they referred to as "a dangerous scofflaw corporation".
In 1969 a blowout at Unocal's (then Union Oil of California), Platform A off the pristine Santa Barbara coast poured 200,000 barrels of crude into the ocean [12]. Massive underground leaking in Avila Beach California resulted in the demolition of the town [13] [14] [15], And another, the central coast town, Orcutt, was similarly found to be contaminated [16]. Unocal reached a $43.8 million settlement for a long time diluent release in the Guadalupe dunes, California [17].
In San Francisco, Unocal was found guilty of "continuously dumping excess selenium into San Francisco Bay" [18]. In Kenai, Alaska, a Unocal ammonia and fertiliser plant experienced an explosion that "ruptured a containment tank, causing about 30,000 gallons of methyldiethanolamine (MDEA), a chemical solution, to spill and about 500 pounds of ammonia gas to vent into the air" [19]. At Cook Inlet Alaska [20] many violations are alleged. A spill in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo [21] [22] compounded years of what the locals say was abuse by the oil giant.
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