#AskChevron Ignored by Company as Tweets Question Oil Giant’s Environmental Destruction

No, Chevron Corp. was not crazy enough to promote the hashtag, #AskChevron. The New York Police Department already showed us all why such a hashtag is never a good idea.

Still, #AskChevron was listed at the top of Twitter trending topics lists around the world Wednesday, the same day as the company’s shareholders meeting. The ridicule the oil giant would experience was not self-inflicted, though—the promotion was purchased by Toxic Effect. The group’s promotion invited a blend of humor, serious questions and statements about the oil and gas corporation’s past blunders and overall lack of care for the planet and the people who live on it.

The hashtag coincided with Toxic Effect’s protest outside of the shareholders meeting in Midland, TX and was rolled out with another hashtag, #WeThePeople. Predictably, Chevron offered no response to the questions or statements from thousands of environmental advocates and Twitter users. Here are some of the tweets we’d like Chevron to respond to:

#AskChevron were the $3 per barrel saved in #Ecuador worth leaving local indigenous w skin, mouth, stomach & uterine cancer? @NathalieCely

— IguanaMixer (@iguanamixer) May 28, 2014

#AskChevron who takes care of them @ApoyaAlEcuador @chevroffnow @LaManoSucia pic.twitter.com/8Ih4gYhdWd

— ToxicEffect (@thetoxiceffect) May 28, 2014

@Chevron may want to chime in on a hot promoted “#AskChevron” hashtag. It’s getting a bad tweet feed. Say something Chevron.

— Lance Moore (@lancemoore22) May 28, 2014 

#WeThePeople want that Chevron use their money to make their methods greener #AskChevron

— Pinson Horowitz (@Pinsonnjp) May 28, 2014

#askchevron about the toxic water they’re producting @ggjalliance

— Fontaine Cate (@FontaineCatetht) May 28, 2014

I would imagine #Chevron‘s PR team is running at Code Purple right about now … #AskChevron

— Brent Beatty (@brent_in_ATL) May 28, 2014

#WeThePeople want chevron to pay up the richmond families affected by the toxic clouds #AskChevron

— Minnick Baumann (@Minnickddm) May 28, 2014

#AskChevron hashtag makes me want to buy a plug-in so I never have to buy gas again

— Lisa Bellamy (@LBnSF) May 28, 2014

#Askchevron about this @chevroffnow @Chevron_Toxico @ApoyaAlEcuador pic.twitter.com/7US6Zsbite

— ToxicEffect (@thetoxiceffect) May 28, 2014

@thetoxiceffect has a point, why don’t we all #AskChevron why they’re polluting some of the most beautiful land on this Earth?

— Kaley Brower (@BrowerKaley) May 28, 2014

#TRIVIA Chevron is guilty of… #AskChevron pic.twitter.com/Htosq3qDvp

— ToxicEffect (@thetoxiceffect) May 27, 2014

#AskChevron how many dead people in the third world does it take to extract 1 barrel of oil

— george boseman (@cat7912) May 28, 2014

What’s your beef with the Earth? #AskChevron

— Aslan King (@AslanOfMass) May 28, 2014

#AskChevron do you feel anything for polluting and possibly being a leading cause for the ozone

— Jessica Green (@JayNeptune88) May 28, 2014

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