Anti Corrupion Takes a close look at Ascendant’s Lands in Intag
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 tierras en Intag, y pide […]
Read MoreAmnesty International Takes Action
Amnesty International has launched campaign to save the lives of two anti-mining activists protesting a mining project in Intag. Please read the Action Alert and distribute widely. (PDF)
Read MoreYET ANOTHER BLOW FOR ASCENDANT
Commission Calls for Ascendant’s Properties to Revert Back to the State Yesterday (July 23), Ecuador’s Civic Anti Corruption Commission announced in a news release (PDF), that it had found evidence of illegalities concerning the transfer of ownership in 18 of Ascendant’s land titles in the Intag mining area (JUNIN mining project). The Commission is soliciting […]
Read MoreAscendant Told To Stop
(espaniol tan pronto alguien me de una mano) High officials with the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (formerly Energy and Mines) of Ecuador – including the Minister himself – sent two very crucial official documents to Ascendant Copper Corporation on the 12th and 15th of July of 2007, pointing out grave issues related to the […]
Read MoreSome Very Bad News For Ascendant
Ascendant told to Stop by Ministry officialsAntofagasta pulls out of joint mining project Ascendant Told To Stop(español tan pronto alguien me de una mano!!) High officials with the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (formerly Energy and Mines) of Ecuador – including the Minister himself– sent two very crucial official documents to Ascendant Copper Corporation on […]
Read MoreCommunity Leader Implicates Ascendant in Death Threats/ Ascendant’s Troubles in Ecuador
COMMUNITY LEADER IMPLICATES ASCENDANT COPPER IN DEATH THREATS Polibio Perez, president of the Community Development Council, asked the District Attorney of Imbabura Province that Ascendant Copper Corporations employees be investigated in conjunction to the death threats he has received during the past few months. Mr. Perez suspects that the death threats emanate from Jorge Mantilla, […]
Read MoreChallenging Canadian Mining Companies
Imposing mining projects on communities of resistance From Z Magazine, June 2007 Vol. 20 No. 6: 50-55 By Al Gedicks Canadian mining companies, which constitute almost 60 percent of the world’s exploration and mining companies, have made Latin America the world’s most popular resource frontier. The Toronto stock exchange is the world’s largest single source […]
Read MoreResistance to Ascendant continues in Ecuador
Jun 14, 2007 14:15 ET MiningWatch Canada: Resistance to Ascendant Copper’s Junin Project continues in Ecuador OTTAWA, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – June 14, 2007) – Employees of Ascendant Copper Corporation continue to face limitations when accessing the concession at their Junin project due to local opposition to the project, an issue that was downplayed in Ascendant Copper’s […]
Read MoreMinister Against Open Pit Mining, Concessions were chaos
Espaniol ver abajo Also below: Rejection of Environmental Impact Study; Stop work order, and National Anti-mining Strike tuesday, June 12The Minister of Energy and Mines of Ecuador, Alberto Acosta, said yesterday that he oposes open-pit mining, and that he considers the mining concessions in Ecuador were a “real chaos”. He further implied that the future […]
Read MoreNEW MEASURES BY GOV.- ANTI MINING NATIONAL STRIKE
Espaniol ver abajoGOVERNMENT FIRM AGAINST MINING CONCESSIONS- REJECTION OF ENVIRONMNETAL IMPACT STUDY, AND NEW LEGISLATION ON THE HORIZON JUNE 5TH, NATIONAL ANTI-MINING PROTEST PLANNED Today´s El Comercio Newspaper reported Ecuador´s President Correa recent speach against the mining concessions in Ecuador, where he stated that it´s a disaster how they have been issued and that his […]
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