Panel affirms Chevron payment halt to Ecuador

No end in site: Chevron's Ecuador case trudges on

NOAH BRENNER

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By News Wires

 17 February 2012 21:31 GMT

An arbitration panel reinforced an order that Ecuador's government seek to suspend an $18 billion court award against US oil company Chevron over pollution in the South American country's rainforest.



A year after its original order, the three-person panel, working under The Hague's Permanent Court of Arbitration, told the Republic of Ecuador on Thursday to "take all measures necessary" through its judicial, legislative or executive branches to suspend enforcement of the award at home and abroad, Reuters reported.

It is the latest sign that the landmark litigation, which has run almost two decades, could go on for years longer as it works its way through legal channels outside the country where the pollution occurred.

Chevron has also appealed last February's ruling…

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