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 […]
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 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 MoreLa rana que podría finiquitar los planes de Codelco en el Ecuador
Informe de Defensoría del Pueblo Destaca Abusos Relacionados al Poyecto Llurimagua de ENAMI -C0DELCO (English below) Tras los devastadores hallazgos de la Contraloría General del Estado sobre la concesión minera de Llurimagua, anteriormente conocida como Junín, la Defensoría del Pueblo del Ecuador acaba de publicar un informe de 88 páginas sobre los abusos a los […]
Read MorePearls Before Swine: The Apalling Cost of Ecuador’s Extractivist Agenda
Pearls Before Swine: The Apalling Cost of Ecuador’s Extractivist Agenda* Where are the voices of the international community in preventing this […]
Read MoreUpdate New version of 21 reasons
Twenty One Reasons Why Codelco Should Stay Out of Intag (updated) Please see the 21 reasons below the photograph of the latest infamy Apologies for the lapse. Life has been intense lately (more than normal) So, Javier went home, but the appeals court held that he should have served 12 instead of the 10 months […]
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