Dec 23rd Update- REsponding to AScendant and call to action from ISN
Dear Everyone Before anything else, and on behalf of Intag’s communities, DECOIN and myself, I want to sincerely thank all of you for helping; for caring and for acting on our behalf during this very difficult past 12 months. During this past year most of you wrote letters, some sent money, and all of you […]
Read MoreGovernment Rejects EIS !! / Estudio de Impacto rechazado por gobierno!!
Español abajo Government Rejects Environmental Impact Study The Subsecretary for Environmental Protection of the Ministry of Energy and Mines made it official today: the Ministry rejected Ascendant’s Environmental Impact Study for its Junin mining project. The decision was taken basically because of: Insufficient consultation with affected communities; insuficient deforestation and impacts to the area’s threatened […]
Read MoreUpdated 12/12 Guards Freed / Actualizado 12/12 Comunidad libera a "paramilitares"
ESPAÑOL ABAJOSunday 10 december Yesterday, Saturday 9 December, several Ministry of the Energy and Mines representatives, together with the Mayor of Cotacachi helicoptered in to the community of Junin to officially receive the 56 guards that had been detained in Junin since they were arrested on the 4th. Community leaders and representatives of Intag’s Parish […]
Read MoreEntrevista Ecuavisa de activista de la DECOIN / TV interview Decoin member
07/12/2006 | 08:50 A piedrazos y balas: Seis activistas agredidos por presuntos empleados de empresa minera El activista Jorge Pereira denunció la brutal agresión de la que fue víctima (Imagen: Ecuavisa).
Read MoreAscendant Stopped by government / Gobierno frena a Ascendant
Español abajo “As is publicly known, in the last few days grave confrontations have taken place in the communities within the area of influence of the Junin Mining project, which is under the responsibility of the company you represent, putting at risk the security and integrity of the inhabitants of the area..”“….Therefore, as competent environmental […]
Read More****Suspension for Ascendant ***/ TARJETA ROJA para Ascendant
IS IT LIGHTS OUT FOR ASCENDANT? 7 decemberExtra officially we heard from a very reliable source that this afternoon (7 december) the Ministry of Energy and Mines ordered a suspension of mining and mining related activities for Ascendant’s Junin project!!!! If confirmed, it was an extremely long overdue decision. One which the Ministry and the […]
Read MoreResumen- Junin Sitiada 6 dic / Summary to 6 dec Junin under siege
Español abajo Dec 6th Today, four people were wounded, one seriously, when a pro-mining crowd in the area of Garcia Moreno stopped approximately 600 hundred persons from all over Intag and other parts of Cotacachi County, along with the governor of Imbabura and Cotacachi County, who were heading to Junin to witness the freeing of […]
Read MorePhotos / FOTOS 12-01, 2006 Enfrentamiento / Shootings
Los paramilitares Este es carro de la empresa Ascendant, y su chofer es Fausto Herrera que es de Garcia Moreno Silvia Pierna lastimada de Israel Perez
Read MoreHuman Rights Organizations Condemms Ascendant’s Actions / Cedhu condena a Ascendant Copper, pide investigar uso de paramilitares
ESPAÑOL ABAJOHUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION CONDEMMS ASCENDANT’S VIOLENCE IN JUNIN NEWS RELEASE THE ECUMENICAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMISSION (CEDHU) DENOUNCES INTAG COMMUNITIES VICTIM OF NEW VIOLENT ATTEMPTED INVASION BY PEOPLE LINKED TO ASCENDANT COPPER CORPORATION, SOME OF THEM CAMOUFLAGED, AND USING MACHINE GUNS, HANDGUNS AND TEAR GAS.2nd of December 2006 Approximately at 4am on Friday, 2 of […]
Read More3 Dic.. EMERGENCY IN JUNIN!! / EMERGENCIA EN JUNIN
español abajo The government of Garcia Moreno withdrew all support for Ascendant Dec 3 am_ In spite of Ascedndant losing all support, dozens of heavily armed persons claiming to work for security companies were seen leaving Garcia Moreno heading for the Junin area this morning. This force looks more and more to be a para […]
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