Update 27 December 2004!!
Intag Sorry for the lapse in updates, but it’s been too crazy. Here’s a quick update on the situation in Intag Wishing everyone happy, peaceful holidays, September-December: As a result of a denunciation by a prestigious human-rights organization (CEDHU), Ascendant Exploration is being investigated for possible human rights abuses, including death threats to local anti-mining […]
Read MoreAl Gedicks from the Center for Alternative Mining Development Policy Raises Questions about Ascendant’s Claims
Excerpts from Gedicks’ letter to the Toronto Stock Exchange: “I am writing regarding a possible case of fraud or misleading information by a company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The case concerns the recent announcement by Ascendant Holdings Ltd. of the acquisition of the Junin copper-molybdenum deposit in Ecuador. The company describes this as […]
Read MoreMayor of Cotacachi Supports the Community’s Position against Ascendant
Excerpts from Mayor Auki Tituaña’s letter to Ascendant Exploration: “From the very first days of Ascendant Exploration’s presence in our County, we have witnessed serious instances of irresponsibility on the part of your employees, who have neither informed any institutions of their plans or, what’s worse, not even asked for relevant authorization to undertake mining […]
Read MoreURGENT: Ascendant Holdings, Ltd. Plans Spins-Off Of Copper Projects
PLEASE TAKE ACTION! Sample Letter A new development in the Junin will change the course of our campaign against Ascendant. Ascendant Exploration has spinned off a copper corporation, apparently based in B.C. (see below), and is ready to place the company on a major international stock exchange, probably Toronto, to start. We are not sure […]
Read MoreINTAG: VIOLENCE ESCALATES
Two of ex-congressman Ronald Andrade’s bodyguards attacked three local residents in a totally unprovoked assault yesterday, Saturday 13 November in García Moreno, Zona de Intag, Ecuador. The bodyguards were trying to take a camera away from a Spanish volunteer who took three photos in a public meeting in which Ascendant’s Exploration’s representative, general Cesar Villacis […]
Read MoreINTAG: Another nail in Ascendant’s Coffin
Things have been rather quiet lately, which for us is good news. Some of that quietness might be to the latest setbacks to Ascendant detailed below. ON THE GROUND: After the amazing anti-mining rally in the village of Barcelona in October 9th, where more than 500 people showed up from 22 communities, there have not […]
Read MoreCOMUNIDADES REAFIRMAN ROTUNDO RECHAZO A LA MINERÍA EN INTAG, ECUADOR
Desde los más lejanos rincones de la Zona de Intag campesinos y campesinas viajaron a pie, a caballo, y en camiones a la comunidad de Barcelona este sábado 9 de octubre, para protestar en contra de la minería, y de los atropellos que se vienen dando en la Zona de Intag por empresas mineras. La […]
Read MoreIS "ASCENDANT DESPERATION" GETTING MORE DESPERATE?
The latest trick by the miners are to try and break the ever growing resistance to their project is paying for a web page to try to discredit DECOIN’s work in Intag (www.fraudecoin.org). They are hoping to do this by using a political party called “Todos por Intag”, a party that practically did not exist […]
Read MoreLOS MINEROS QUIEREN QUE EL PERIODICO INTAG SE CALLE
Boletín de Prensa Fiscalia y transnacional minera persiguen a habitantes de INTAG La empresa Ascendant Exploration acaba de iniciar un juicio por injurias calumniosas en contra del periódico INTAG. Según la denuncia de John Bolaños Moreno, Gerente General de la minera, nuestro delito es el de haber informado sobre las amenazas y los intentos por […]
Read MoreAscendant sues the Intag Paper
Mary Ellen, editor of the Intag paper called today to inform me that the Intag paper is being sued for libel by our friends at Ascendant Exploration. Libel in this country carries a jail sentence. The paper has printed many stories, all based on facts, on the struggle against mining and on the manouvers undertaken […]
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