Month: June 2006

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Friends of the Earth calls on Canada’s Auditor General to investigate corruption by a Canadian mining company in Ecuador

Reposted from Environmental Communication Options News Releases (www.huffstrategy.com/MediaManager/ReadRelease.php?ReleaseID=235) 14/6/06 3:03PM(Ottawa, June 14, 2006) On the eve of a federal government-led initiative to debate regulating the activities of Canadian mining companies abroad*, Friends of the Earth has formally petitioned the Auditor General to investigate a junior mining company’s activities in Ecuador’s endangered Cloud Forest. “The Canadian […]

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June 11, 2006 Update* WHY IS THE MINISTRY OF ENERGY AND MINES SO UPSET AT ASCENDANT?AND, WHY IS THE MAYOR OF COTACACHI SO PISSED WITH THE COMPANY?(and other tales Ascendant woes) “The Ministry of Energy and Mines, concerned with the escalation of conflicts in the areas of Golden 1 and Golden 2, takeS no responsibility […]

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