EXPOSING ASCENDANT’S LATEST SPIN
Exposing Ascendant Copper Corporation’s Latest Spin If there is one thing that makes most mining companies homogenous, is their need to spin, distort, and disinform the public regarding either the real value of their mining deposit, the regulatory obstacles they face, and/or, the projects’s environmental and social challenges, plus the true nature of the opposition […]
Read MoreLa Hora: Ascendant Copper dejó Intag
4 de Octubre de 2007 Momentos en que Edgar Romero, funcionario de la Dirección de Minería de Pichincha pone los sellos de suspensión. García Moreno, La Hora Ayer, una delegación de la Dirección Regional de Minería de Pichincha, por intermedio de Marco Cruz, director de la regional minera, exteriorizó la providencia que el Ministerio de […]
Read MoreOfficial Shut Down of Ascendant / Ecuador Free of Large Scale Mining
espaniol ya mismito…… Official Shut Down of Ascendant in IntagEcuador Free of Large-Scale Metal Mining Today (Oct 3) officials from the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, accompanied by police, came to Chalguayaco Bajo and García Moreno to officially close down Ascendant’s operations in Intag. The Ministry’s employees placed official closure seals over the company’s office […]
Read MoreNO HOPE FOR LARGE-SCALE MINING NOR FOR ASCENDANT
espaniol ya mismo…. NO HOPE FOR LARGE-SCALE MINING IN ECUADOR Communities in Intag Celebrate the Results of Elections In Ecuador, the government’s candidates won a landslide victory this past Sunday to the Constitutional Assembly, which will be charged with drafting a new constitution. According to exit polls, the government candidates have won not less than […]
Read MoreASCENDANT TO LEAVE INTAG!!
Espaniol abajo ASCENDANT COPPER CORPORATION TO LEAVE INTAG!!FINALLY!!This morning, 25 of September, Galo Chiriboga, the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum held a news conference where it ordered Ascendant Copper Corporation complete suspension of all activities within the company`s 3 concessions in the Intag region of Ecuador due to violations to the mining law. The Ministry’s […]
Read MoreMain Indigenous Organizations Join Anti-Mining Movement
espaniol abajo Preliminary Translation SOUTHERN REGIONAL FORUM: THE NATION THAT WE DESIRE: FIRST DIALOGUE OF THE PEOPLES In the city of Loja, the day Tuesday 18 of September of the presents, by invitation of CONAIE, ECUARUNARI, CONFENIAE, the COORDINATORS OF the DEFENSE OF LIFE OF the PANGUI, LOS ENCUENTROS, YANTZAZA, a great coming together of […]
Read MoreAscendant- Constituent Assembly to Deal with Mining Conflicts
español ABAJO ECUADOR: Constituent Assembly to Deal with Mining Conflicts By Kintto Lucashttp://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39101QUITO, Aug 31 (IPS) – A solution to the ongoing confrontations between mining companies and rural communities in Ecuador is likely to be left up to the constituent assembly that will begin to rewrite the country’s constitution in October. Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa […]
Read MoreBAN TO OPEN PIT MINING SOUGHT IN ECUADOR
Espanol tan pronto pueda…. http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSN2219295420070822 PDATE 1- Ecuador wants mining reforms via assemblyWed Aug 22, 2007 6:38PM EDTEmail | Print | Digg | Reprints | Single Page | Recommend (0) [-] Text [+] Featured Broker sponsored link Power. Price. Service. No Compromises.(Adds deputy mining minister and Acosta comments, byline) By Alonso Soto QUITO, Aug 22 […]
Read MoreHuman Rights Organization on Ascendant’s Abuses/ Cedhu: Persecución de líderes en Intag
ESPAÑOL ABAJOHuman Rights Organization on Ascendant’s Abuses www.cedhu.orgEcumenical Human Rights Commission- CEDHU- Leaders in Intag Singled Out for Persecution and Intimidation Quito, Agosto 23 2007 For Intag’s leaders, the opposition to the activities of the transnational Ascendant Copper has meant grim persecution characterized by a series of intimidation of increasing violence. Ascendant Copper manages the […]
Read MoreANTI-MINING ACTIVIST NEARLY LYNCHED BY "Ex MINING COMPANY WORKERS"
Anti Mining Activist Almost Lynched Nation’s Anti-Corruption Commission Calls for Ascendant’s Properties to Revert Back to the State New Incursion at Villflora ( 26 July 2007) Nuevo intento de incursión por la empresa Amnesty International Support for Intag anti-mining activists Apoyo de Amnistía Internacional para activistas anti-minería Comisión Anti-Corrupción vincula a Ascendant en tráfico de […]
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