Alternatives
BHP
Biodiversity
Codelco, Copper, Intag, Biodiversity
Copper
Rights of Nature
Major legal victory for endemic species in Ecuador and the Rights of Nature
The communities of Intag set a new precedent in their long struggle against mining “In a huge win for the environment, on Thursday 24 September a judge at the Cotacachi Court ruled that the Ministry of the Environment failed at its job of protecting species on the Llurimagua mining concession in northwestern Ecuador’s biodiverse cloud […]
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Alternatives
Decoin
History
Mining
A BRIEF HISTORY OF RESISTANCE TO MINING IN INTAG, ECUADOR
MITSUBISHI AND THE WORLD BANK COME TO INTAG(updated jan/08) Exploration for metallic minerals intensified in the Junín area with the arrival of Bishimetals in the early 1990s. Junín is a community located in Intag, a 1,500 km2 expanse of cloud forests and farms in northwestern Ecuador (Cotacachi County, Imbabura Province). Bishimetals, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi […]
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