Ecuador

BHP Biodiversity Codelco, Copper, Intag, Biodiversity

Vendiéndole al mundo una catástrofe ambiental y social: El proyecto minero Llurimagua del Ecuador

Carlos Zorrilla El gobierno de Ecuador ha estado muy atareado últimamente tratando de vender su participación en el problemático proyecto de cobre Llurimagua a un tercero. En este momento es propiedad de dos compañías mineras estatales, la ecuatoriana ENAMI y la chilena CODELCO, la mayor productora de cobre del mundo. Se han mencionado grandes nombres […]

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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 […]

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BHP Biodiversity Climate crisis Cloud forest Codelco, Copper, Intag, Biodiversity Copper Ecuador Endangered species Impacts of mining Intag Pandemia

When 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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Biodiversity Codelco, Copper, Intag, Biodiversity Pandemia

Ecuador e Intag en tiempos de Pandemia

El gobierno se aprovecha de la crisis para adelantar su agenda letal Carlos Zorrilla Hace algún tiempo que he estado con ganas de escribir esto. Y no es que no haya encontrado el tiempo. Durante las primeras semanas después del inicio de la pandemia, prácticamente todo se detuvo en Ecuador; incluyendo muchas operaciones mineras.  Al […]

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Ecuador in Times of Pandemic

The government and companies are abusing the crisis to advance their lethal agendas. Carlos Zorrilla It’s been a while since I’ve wanted to write this. And, it’s not like I hadn’t found the time. For the first few weeks after the outbreak, practically everything came to a halt in Ecuador; including many mining operations.  As […]

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Biodiversity Copper Decoin Ecuador Impacts of mining Intag Mining

CODELCO ABOUT TO FINANCE CATASTROPHIC MINE IN ECUADOR

Copper mine would deforest thousand of hectares of primary forest that are home to hundreds of species in danger of extinction, contaminate rivers and streams with heavy metals, and relocate hundreds of families from four to six communities(1). An American expert concluded that it is the most dangerous mine he has ever evaluated in his years as a consultant.(2)

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Codelco 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 […]

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Why 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 […]

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Preventing 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, […]

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Decoin’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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