Selling 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 MoreCodelco cerca de financiar catastrófica mina en Ecuador
LLurimagua es el nombre del proyecto minero cuprífero, en el noroccidente del Ecuador, con el cual el gobierno ecuatoriano bautizó al proyecto el cual, durante décadas, fue conocido como Junín. El cambio de nombre fue una estrategia de desligarlo del fracaso de dos empresas transnacional de desarrollar el proyecto. Desde 1995, primero una subsidiaria de […]
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 […]
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