This is the third post about the new arbitral award in the Chevron/Ecuador case. The first post addressed the tribunal’s finding that the Lago Agrio judgment was ghostwritten. The second addressed the issue of estoppel as it related to the question whether Chevron had an investment in Ecuador so as to implicate the bilateral investment treaty between the United States and Ecuador. Today I am going to take a look at some of the remedies the tribunal ordered. I am planning a fourth and final post about the release Texaco obtained from the Ecuadoran government at the time it did its remediation. In case anyone is wondering, I don’t really plan to write about the merits of the claims under the investment treaty at…

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