COMUNIDADES 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 […]
Read MoreIs Ascendant Exploration turning into Ascendant Desperation?
Junin is a world class copper-molybdenum-gold-silver porphyry deposit. Miocene granodioritic rock was intruded by younger mineralized quartz-dioritic and granodioritic porphyries. The economic mineralization is mainly related to primary sulphides. However the existence of secondary enrichment zones increases the potential. Junin is a project in an advance stage (geology, geochemistry, geophysics, drilling, environmentals, prefeasibility). — Taken […]
Read MoreASCENDANT EXPLORATION CONTINUES ACTING TRUE TO FORM
(Intag, Ecuador) As you will be able to see from the report that follows Ascendant Exploration continues to try to impose a mining project very few local villagers want through illegal and aggressive means. This latest rejection is just one more of a long and growing list of examples of people getting fed up with […]
Read MoreDel DIARIO EL NORTE
Ibarra, 1 Septiembre 2004 | Polibio Pérez, Presidente del Consejo de Desarrollo Comunitario de la parroquia de García Moreno. Dijo dirigente comunitario “Ministro del Ambiente está solo en el papel” IBARRA | El Presidente del Consejo de Desarrollo Comunitario de la parroquia de García Moreno, Polibio Pérez, exigió a los ministros del Ambiente Fabián Valdivieso […]
Read MoreMORE GOOD NEWS FROM JUNIN
A delegation from the Junin area was set to travel to Imbabura’s capital, Ibarra, to pressure the provincial government to start working on the road, which the miners had offered to work on in exchange for the communities supporting the mining project (mostly rehabilitation work) Well, yesterday, 18 people showed up from the communities of […]
Read MoreJunin in La Hora Ecuador
August 31, 2004: En Intag dijeron basta August 29, 2004: Problema de minas en Junin toca fondo August 24, 2004: Desmienten inicio de perforación en la concesión del área de Junín August 24, 2004: Siguen los problemas en las minas de Junín en Cotacachi
Read MoreJUNIN: Another Blow to Ascendant as Road Equipment Forced to Turn Back
Another blow to Ascendant Exploration was delivered this past Friday August 27th, when five communities in the Junin area definitely rejected Ascendant’s offer to improve the roads into the communities. As a result of the decision, the company was forced to withdraw their equipment and leave the area. Representatives from the communities of Chalguayacu Alto, […]
Read More