INTAG EN ALERTA
Comunidades afectadas por concesiones mineras en Intag rechazan firmemente presencia de empresa transnacional BHP – Cerro Quebrado. 14 de enero. Al medio día del martes 14, hombres y mujeres de la comunidad de Cazarpamba juntamente con moradores de comundiades aledañas, le prohibieron el paso a empleados de la poderosa empresa transnacional minera BHP a pesar […]
Read MoreWhy is BHP Running Away from Public Meetings in Ecuador?
Because of their cowardice we may never know That was one of the questions I had in mind to ask the representative from the most powerful mining company in the world when they were invited to enlighten the room packed with locals from the small farming community of Cazarpamba about the company’s mining project. The […]
Read MoreLo que Codelco le está ocultando al pueblo chileno sobre su primer proyecto minero en el exterior
Hace poco leí un par de artículos en Mining.com y otros medios sobre las maravillas del proyecto minero de cobre de Codelco en el prístino bosque nuboso de Ecuador. Algunos de los artículos sobre todo repitieron la información de un par de artículos publicados en el periódico chileno El Mercurio. Uno de los artículos, glorificó […]
Read MoreTwenty-one Twenty-two Twenty-three Reasons Why Not to Mine in the Forests of Ecuador’s Intag Region Carlos Zorrilla (May 2019; updated November 2019) I wrote what follows because I feel the urgency to do everything possible to avoid what a number of scientists believe to be one of the world’s greatest environmental disasters. An open-pit mine […]
Read MoreTwenty-three Reasons Why Not to Mine in the Forests of Ecuador’s Intag Region
(May 2019; updated November 2019) I wrote what follows because I feel the urgency to do everything possible to avoid what a number of scientists believe to be one of the world’s greatest environmental disasters. The unprecedented environmental disaster in question is known as Llurimagua, a large-scale copper mining project. The site where the Ecuadorian […]
Read MoreMANIFESTO OF INTAG’S CIVIL SOCIETY TO THE MINING THREAT
Intag, June 2019 Note: The Manifesto was signed by representatives of dozens of organizations (scanned signatures available on request) We , the legitimate representatives of our communities, our organizations, our water boards, and prominent residents of the Intag area, express in a concise but firm manner: That we do not recognize of board of directors […]
Read MoreVeintitrés razones por qué Codelco no debe meterse en Intag Carlos Zorrilla (05 2019; actualizado noviembre 2019) Escribo el presente documento porque siento la urgencia de hacer todo lo posible para evitar lo que varios científicos consideran será uno de los desastres ambientales más grande del mundo. El anunciado desastre ambiental sin precedente es conocido […]
Read MorePreventing a Capital Environmental Crime
The Confusing Rocket Frog and Intag’s Future Carlos Zorrilla To the human eye, the mostly dark-green Confusing Rocket Frog is not as attractive as the Harlequin Longnose Frog. Both amphibians are found in a patch of forest in Ecuador’s Intag region and nowhere else on the planet. The Harlequin’s discovery in 2016 was amazing enough, […]
Read MoreDecoin’s work, 2019
Twenty-One Reasons Why not to Mine in Ecuador’s Intag Forests DECOIN has been actively working with communities since 1995 to stop large-scale mining development in Ecuador’s northwestern region. We are a grass-roots environmental organization, whose members live and work in the area we are trying to protect. For our work to keep Intag free of […]
Read MoreBHP SHUT OUT OF COTACACHI COUNTY *INTAG*
You can expect the same for Cornerstone and Codelco… The week of June 4 saw BHP lose a court case in which the company tried to force the Municipal government of Cotacachi to give the company a permit to open an office within the Cuellaje area (concessions Santa Teresa 1 and 2; plus 3 more […]
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