13 March: Stunning New Setback for Ascendant Copper Corporation
Zona de Intag 12 March 2006 This time it was a meeting Ascendant had called in the village they considered “theirs” – Chalguayacu Alto, where Ascendant and Daimi Services thought it was safe to hold a meeting to socialize the Environmental Impact Study. It seems the natives were not as friendly as they imagined. Anti-mining […]
Read MoreMarch 7th UPDATE, mod 10 March
UPDATE 7 MARCH 2006 New Setbacks for AscendantLegal Processes LawsuitsThe Frankenstein FactorChalguayacu AltoThe 24 Hour Arrest Warrants New Setbacks.On Thursday, March 2nd, community members detained 3 employees of Daimi Services in Chalguayacu Bajo and were taken to Junin. Daimi is the public relations company hired by Ascendant to, supposedly, socialize their Environmental Impact Statement and […]
Read MoreDAIMI Services in TROUBLE, Ascendant loses more support 2 March 2006
Reports from Junin today tell of three Daimi Services employees taken to Junin by dozens of anti-mining protesters from several communities to protest the presence of Daimi Services and Ascendant Copper Corporation in Intag. On previous occasions, the mining company was clearly warned by communities that neither they nor their representatives were wanted in the […]
Read MoreJUNIN’S NEW ANTI-MINING COUNCIL
Today, the community of Junin elected a new community council. The council is made up of some of the community’s most committed anti-mining activists. Edmundo Lucero, the new president, pledge to continue resisting the mining project at all cost. The rest of the democractically: Mercy Torres Secretary; Leonidas Leon, Treasurer, and Vice President. At the […]
Read MoreResistencia en Intag
The short documentary “Resistencia en Intag” can be seen on a Canadian Internet TV station ekosTV: www.ekostv.com. Thanks to the communities of Junín, Barcelona, Cerro Pelado, Chalguayacu Alto, Chalguayacu Bajo and to DECOIN. The film was produced by Rebecca Heaton, Joel Zorrilla, and Charles Carlin of the Intag Solidarity Network.
Read MoreAscending Bull: THIN-AIR EIA’s
Ascendant claimed, on a January 3rd news release, that it had completed its Environmental Impact Statement for the Junin project, and that it was “socializing it with the communities”. For this work and for supposedly getting the necessary “social licence”, it said, it had hired a Canadian and an Ecuadorian firm. In Ecuador, this is […]
Read MoreJan 7th Update (Ist part)- Police in Junin
POLICE DISRUPT THE PEACE IN JUNÍN AGAIN 2: 30 pm Saturday 7 January 2006 Around 10am this morning a group of 19 policemen went into Junín claiming there was a report that the people there were going to burn other properties belonging to the mining company. It is, of course, a complete lie. The real […]
Read MoreMining Conflict in Ecuador Heats Up
Published in Upside Down World, an online magazine uncovering activism and politics in Latin America.Written by Cyril Mychalejko Wednesday, 21 December 2005 Excerpt:Dozens of Ecuadorians recently burnt down a building owned by Ascendant Copper Corporation to protest its mining activities in the area. The Canadian mining company claimed in a press release that the structure […]
Read MoreInternational Human Rights Observer Report: The Events in Chalguayaco Bajo on Dec. 10, 2005
An eyewitness report by one of the International Observers of December 10, 2005.On December 10, 2005 I served as an international human rights observer in the community of Chalguayacu Bajo in the Intag Region of Ecuador. In light of the events of that day, in which a building owned by the Ascendant Mining Corporation was […]
Read MoreAscedant Goes After Campesinos: 21 Dec 2005
Ascendant Going After Campesinos: December 21, 2005 I have in my hands a copy of the company’s legal denouncement in which it asks District Attorney (Prosecutor) to initiate investigations of the events of Saturday the 10th. The document is signed by the company’s legal representative (General Manager in Ecuador), Juan Carlos Bermeo. In the 2 […]
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