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 More8 de mayo
Siete años de impunidad, atropellos y lucha No se trata del sangriento levantamiento de octubre del 2019 el cual, indudablemente, se comentará ampliamente este mes. Más bien, este texto es sobre los siete años de la violenta e inconstitucional ocupación militar-policial de Junín y casi toda la zona de Intag para instalar a la transnacional […]
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 MoreEcuador’s Mining Days Are Numbered
Coupled with the landslide approval of an anti-mining referendum in Ecuador’s third largest city, the writing could not be more up on the wall for mining’s future. If you still don’t see the writing on the wall, the other interesting and painful statistic for the mining sector is that the most openly pro-mining candidate Geovanni […]
Read MoreDos ranas endémicas obtienen una importante victoria legal contra la Industria minera en Ecuador
Durante décadas, las comunidades del Valle de Íntag han resistido a esta industria, que tiene su mirada puesta en las minas de cobre de la región. Esta decisión podría tener un impacto positivo en los derechos de la naturaleza en todo el territorio, ya que sienta un importante precedente. Sugiere que a otras especies endémicas […]
Read MoreFrogs win court battle against mining in Ecuador
Mongabay Latam Doménica Montaño October 13, 2020 On September 24, 2020, a judge accepted an action to protect the valley and its biodiversity. The decision could save dozens of endangered species. *This report is a journalistic alliance between Mongabay Latam and GK of Ecuador. In the valley of Intag, two ecosystems come together: a part […]
Read MoreMajor legal victory for endemic species in Ecuador and the Rights of Nature
The communities of Intag set a new precedent in their long struggle against mining “In a huge win for the environment, on Thursday 24 September a judge at the Cotacachi Court ruled that the Ministry of the Environment failed at its job of protecting species on the Llurimagua mining concession in northwestern Ecuador’s biodiverse cloud […]
Read MorePROYECTO MINERO DE CODELCO EN LAS MIRAS DE LAS CORTES ECUATORIANAS
Después de 26 años de resistir a dos transnacionales, comuneros de Intag, Ecuador, se defienden de la Codelco Zona de Intag, 14 de septiembre 2020 El viernes 11 de septiembre, en la corte multicompetente de la ciudad de Cotacachi, Provincia de Imbabura, se presentó la primera medida constitucional para evitar que Codelco sea cómplice de […]
Read MoreSelling the World a Social and Environmental Catastrophe: Ecuador’s Llurimagua Mining Project
Carlos Zorrilla The government of Ecuador has been busy trying sell its share of the troubled Llurimagua copper project to a third party of late. Right now it is owned by two state-owned mining companies, Ecuador’s ENAMI and the Chilean giant, CODELCO, the world’s largest copper producer. Big names like BHP have been mentioned, as […]
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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