Veinticinco razones por qué Codelco no se debe meter en Intag
Carlos Zorrilla (actualizado octubre-2023) ACTUALIZACIÓN:: #25 DESPUÉS DE CASI 3 DÉCADAS DE LUCHA, LAS COMUNIDADES DE INTAG TRIUNFAN! 29 DE MARZO 2023: La Corte Provincial de Imbabura finalmente le dio la razón a las comunidades y falló en contra del proyecto minero Llurimagua, revocando la licencia ambiental y ordenando un cese total a toda actividad […]
Read MoreCODELCO’S TROUBLED MINING PROJECT IN INTAG UNDER NEW SCRUTINY
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.
El problemático proyecto minero de Llurimagua en Ecuador
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
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 […]
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