INTAG: 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 […]
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 […]
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