Author: Carlos Zorrilla

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ALGUNOS DATOS INTERESANTES ACERCA DE LA "ASCENDANT EXPLORATION" …

Domingo, 20 de mayo del 2005 Algunos datos interesantes sobre "Ascendant Exploration", la compañía madre "Ascendant Holdings limited" y su prole "Ascendant Copper Corporation"…. Y algunos de los principales personajes que los dirigen. Ascendant Exploration, con base en Quito y creada en 1997, fue comprada por Ascendant Holdings Ltd. en 2000. Ascendant Holdings tiene su […]

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Eight Community Presidents Opposed to the Mining Project in Intag

Pictured are eight community presidents, plus Polibio Perez, president of the Community Development Council, who signed a declaration asking the Municipality to declare the Toisan Range a Municipal Protected Area under community management. In order from left to right:Polibio Perez, President of the Community Development Council Manuel Muñoz; President of the La Armenia Community Manuel […]

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SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ASCENDANT EXPLORATION…

SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ASCENDANT EXPLORATION, THE MOTHER COMPANY-ASCENDANT HOLDINGS LIMITED, AND THEIR OFFSPRING, ASCENDANT COPPER CORPORATION… And some of the main characters involved in running them. • Quito-based Ascendant Exploration, created in 1997, was purchased by Ascendant Holdings Ltd. in 2000. Ascendant Holdings is based in the British Turks and Caicos Island, off the […]

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INTAG UPDATE

Parish Government Decides to Reject MiningAscendant’s EIA company comes to visitJunin says: Nice to meet you, but please leave!DECOIN meets Whistler; at last!Canada trip and the OECD complaint against Ascendant Copper CorporationDocumentary CompletedMunicipality Launches Another Legal Challenge to the Mining Concessions in IntagLegal Defense in the USAWhat next? It’s been a busy month. And one […]

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International Investment Complaint Filed Against Canadian Mining Company

DECOIN, along with Friends of Earth Canada and Miningwatch Canada filed a complaint with Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development this past Thursday. Click here for a copy of the release.

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Yet Another Infamy by Ascendant

This past April 23rd in the town of Garcia Moreno an Assembly organized by Ascendant Copper Corporation’s CODEGAM, an organization created by the company and supposedly for community development council, took some rather outrageous and aggressive resolutions. Included in the resolutions are direct attacks on DECOIN, and me personally, the Mayor of Cotacachi, three other […]

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OTRA INFAMIA MAS: MINERIA EN INTAG

OTRA INFAMIA MÁS: LA MINERÍA EN INTAG El 23 de abril se realizó una asamblea muy importante en la Parroquia de García Moreno, Cantón Cotacachi, Ecuador. Importante no tanto por las agresivas y hasta violentas resoluciones tomadas en contra del Alcalde de Cotacachi y organizaciones e individuos que trabajan en Intag que no comparten la […]

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April 23 Infamy by Codegam and Ascendant

This past April 23rd in the town of Garcia Moreno an Assembly organized by Ascendant Copper Corporation’s CODEGAM, an organization created by the company and supposedly for community development council, took some rather outrageous and aggressive resolutions. Included in the resolutions are direct attacks on DECOIN, and me personally, the Mayor of Cotacachi, three other […]

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LAW FIRM QUESTIONS ASCENDANT’S ACTIONS

The prestigious, international law firm, Heller Ehrman, on behalf of DECOIN, today notified Chris Werner of Ascendant Holdings of improper activities in conjunction with the Junin mining project, which Ascendant, against firm and growing local, regional and international opposition, wants to carry out. (PDF of the letter.) The letter opens by saying: “We are writing […]

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Miners Attack Us

Resolutions taken against our Mayor, local organizations, and foreigners here in Intag on April 23rd. Seeing is believing, but this is just too much to believe: CODEGAM Resolutions Needles to say, not a single president from communities near to the mining area signed the resolution, and only one of 7 parish presidents did so. We […]

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