The ruling Chevron is appealing was handed by an Ecuadorian appeals court on January 4, nearly a year after the panel received the case, the state-run Andes news agency reported.
The case stems from claims that the company had a detrimental impact on Amazonian communities where it operated.
Chevron says it has filed the appeal with Ecuador’s National Court of Justice.
Chevron’s appeal is the latest in 19 years of litigation between Amazon residents and Texaco, which was later purchased by Chevron.
At the time of the January ruling, Chevron said the appeals court decision “is another glaring example of the politicization and corruption of Ecuador’s judiciary that has plagued this fraudulent case from the start.”
The lawsuit alleges that Texaco used a variety of substandard production practices in Ecuador that resulted in pollution that decimated several indigenous groups in the area, according to a fact sheet provided by the Amazon Defense Coalition. According to the group, Texaco dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxic waste into Amazon waterways, abandoned more than 900 waste pits, burned millions of cubic meters of gases with no controls and spilled more than 17 million gallons of oil due to pipeline ruptures.
Chevron’s appeal is the latest in 19 years of litigation between Amazon residents and Texaco, which was later purchased by Chevron.
At the time of the January ruling, Chevron said the appeals court decision “is another glaring example of the politicization and corruption of Ecuador’s judiciary that has plagued this fraudulent case from the start.”
The company alleges that reports and evidence against it were fraudulent, and that bribes and corruption led to the original decision against it.