Twenty-one Twenty-two Twenty-three Reasons Why Not to Mine in the Forests of Ecuador’s Intag Region Carlos Zorrilla (May 2019; updated November 2019) I wrote what follows because I feel the urgency to do everything possible to avoid what a number of scientists believe to be one of the world’s greatest environmental disasters. An open-pit mine […]
Read MoreTwenty-three Reasons Why Not to Mine in the Forests of Ecuador’s Intag Region
(May 2019; updated November 2019) I wrote what follows because I feel the urgency to do everything possible to avoid what a number of scientists believe to be one of the world’s greatest environmental disasters. The unprecedented environmental disaster in question is known as Llurimagua, a large-scale copper mining project. The site where the Ecuadorian […]
Read MoreMANIFESTO OF INTAG’S CIVIL SOCIETY TO THE MINING THREAT
Intag, June 2019 Note: The Manifesto was signed by representatives of dozens of organizations (scanned signatures available on request) We , the legitimate representatives of our communities, our organizations, our water boards, and prominent residents of the Intag area, express in a concise but firm manner: That we do not recognize of board of directors […]
Read MoreVeintitrés razones por qué Codelco no debe meterse en Intag Carlos Zorrilla (05 2019; actualizado noviembre 2019) Escribo el presente documento porque siento la urgencia de hacer todo lo posible para evitar lo que varios científicos consideran será uno de los desastres ambientales más grande del mundo. El anunciado desastre ambiental sin precedente es conocido […]
Read MorePreventing a Capital Environmental Crime
The Confusing Rocket Frog and Intag’s Future Carlos Zorrilla To the human eye, the mostly dark-green Confusing Rocket Frog is not as attractive as the Harlequin Longnose Frog. Both amphibians are found in a patch of forest in Ecuador’s Intag region and nowhere else on the planet. The Harlequin’s discovery in 2016 was amazing enough, […]
Read MoreDecoin’s work, 2019
Twenty-One Reasons Why not to Mine in Ecuador’s Intag Forests DECOIN has been actively working with communities since 1995 to stop large-scale mining development in Ecuador’s northwestern region. We are a grass-roots environmental organization, whose members live and work in the area we are trying to protect. For our work to keep Intag free of […]
Read MoreBHP SHUT OUT OF COTACACHI COUNTY *INTAG*
You can expect the same for Cornerstone and Codelco… The week of June 4 saw BHP lose a court case in which the company tried to force the Municipal government of Cotacachi to give the company a permit to open an office within the Cuellaje area (concessions Santa Teresa 1 and 2; plus 3 more […]
Read MoreLa rana que podría finiquitar los planes de Codelco en el Ecuador
Informe de Defensoría del Pueblo Destaca Abusos Relacionados al Poyecto Llurimagua de ENAMI -C0DELCO (English below) Tras los devastadores hallazgos de la Contraloría General del Estado sobre la concesión minera de Llurimagua, anteriormente conocida como Junín, la Defensoría del Pueblo del Ecuador acaba de publicar un informe de 88 páginas sobre los abusos a los […]
Read MorePRESIDENTE ECUATORIANO SE ENCUENTRA EN CHILE PARA AGILITAR PROYECTO MINERO INCONSTITUCIONAL EN EL ECUADOR
Intag, Ecuador, 22 de marzo 2019. Día Mundial del Agua El presidente ecuatoriano, Lenin Moreno, se encuentra en Chile en estos momentos para impulsar el Foro por el Progreso (PROSUR). Pero no es lo único que tiene previsto en su agenda, ni lo único que pretende agilitar. Según informes de prensa, el presidente Moreno tiene […]
Read MoreThe Role BMW May Play in Creating a World-Class Environmental Disaster in Ecuador
There is a rush these days to gain access to copper deposit and other key minerals driven by the expected increase in electric vehicle usage world wide.. That may sound like good news for the composition of the atmosphere, but it will spell doom to other parts of the biosphere, including its biodiviersity, forests, rivers, as well as trampling human rights.
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