Day: November 13, 2019

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Twenty-three Reasons Why Not to Mine in the Forests of Ecuador’s Intag Region

(May 2019; updated November 2019) I wrote what follows because I feel the urgency to do everything possible to avoid what a number of scientists believe to be one of the world’s greatest environmental disasters. The unprecedented environmental disaster in question is known as Llurimagua, a large-scale copper mining project. The site where the Ecuadorian […]

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MANIFESTO OF INTAG’S CIVIL SOCIETY TO THE MINING THREAT

Intag, June 2019 Note: The Manifesto was signed by representatives of dozens of organizations (scanned signatures available on request) We , the legitimate representatives of our communities, our organizations, our water boards, and prominent residents of the Intag area, express in a concise but firm manner: That we do not recognize of board of directors […]

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