BREVE HISTORIA DE LA RESISTENCIA A LA MINERIA EN INTAG, ECUADOR** (abril 2024)
I. Antes de continuar, un breve, y parcial resumen de los hechos y logros desde la última actualización 2017: La Decoin fue premiada por las Naciones Unidas con el Premio Ecuatorial 2017 por nuestro trabajo en favor de la conservación y apoyo al desarrollo sustentable. Es el premio más importante del mundo que se otorga […]
Read MoreCODELCO’S TROUBLED MINING PROJECT IN INTAG UNDER NEW SCRUTINY
- Carlos Zorrilla
- January 10, 2023
- Codelco
- Decoin
- Intag
- Llurimagua
For nearly 30 years, communities have worked to conserve, restore and defend the cloud forests of the Intag Valley in Ecuador, in what locals say is the longest continuous resistance movement against mining in Latin America.
The tropical Andes are considered the world’s most biodiverse hotspot, ranking first in plant, bird, mammal and amphibian diversity; however, less than 15% of Ecuador’s original cloud forests and only 4% of all forests in northwestern Ecuador remain.
Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, plans to open a mine in the Intag Valley that would destroy primary forest and lie within the buffer area of Cotacachi Cayapas Ecological Reserve — a plan that experts say would be ecologically devastating and not worth the cost.
Communities are using the presence of two threatened frog species — previously thought to be extinct — at the mining site to challenge the project under the “rights of nature,” Ecuador’s constitutional guarantee that natural ecosystems have the right to exist, thrive, and evolve.
Efectos ambientales de la minería
- Carlos Zorrilla
- September 5, 2022
- Impactos de la minería
((Traducido del ingles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_effects_of_mining 09-2022)) Los efectos ambientales de la minería pueden ocurrir a escala local, regional y global a través de prácticas mineras directas e indirectas. Los efectos pueden resultar en erosión , sumideros , pérdida de biodiversidad o la contaminación del suelo , las aguas subterráneas y las aguas superficiales por los productos químicos emitidos por los procesos mineros. Estos procesos también afectan a la atmósfera por las emisiones de […]
Read MoreEl problemático proyecto minero de Llurimagua en Ecuador
- Carlos Zorrilla
- September 21, 2021
- Arbitraje
- biodiversidad
- Codelco
- Ecuador
- Enami
- extinción
- Llurimagua
- Minería
Ahora que el arbitraje internacional solicitado por la gigante minera chilena Codelco contra el Ecuador está generando interés, me parece que es el momento perfecto para informar un poco al público sobre lo que hay detrás del arbitraje, y llamar la atención a la prensa por la información tan chapucera sobre este proyecto minero.
Read MoreEcuador’s Ecuador’s Problematic Llurimagua Mining Project
- Carlos Zorrilla
- April 12, 2021
- Arbitration
- Codelco
- Constitutiona
- Ecuador
- Frogs
- Intag
- Llurimagua
- mining
Now that the international arbitration requested by the Chilean mining giant Codelco against the Ecuador is attracting worldwide attention, it feels like the right time to inform the public a little bit about what is behind the arbitration, and call the press for such shoddy reporting on this mining project
Read MoreWhen I think of the copper laying below Intag’s forests
When I think of the copper laying beneath Intag’s cloud forests the last thing I think about is clean energy for the poor of our planet. I know better. Rather, I think of death. I think of contamination of pristine rivers and streams with arsenic and lead that will last a thousand years. Of acid […]
Read MoreCODELCO ABOUT TO FINANCE CATASTROPHIC MINE IN ECUADOR
Copper mine would deforest thousand of hectares of primary forest that are home to hundreds of species in danger of extinction, contaminate rivers and streams with heavy metals, and relocate hundreds of families from four to six communities(1). An American expert concluded that it is the most dangerous mine he has ever evaluated in his years as a consultant.(2)
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