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, […]
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 MoreThe Role BMW May Play in Creating a World-Class Environmental Disaster in Ecuador
There is a rush these days to gain access to copper deposit and other key minerals driven by the expected increase in electric vehicle usage world wide.. That may sound like good news for the composition of the atmosphere, but it will spell doom to other parts of the biosphere, including its biodiviersity, forests, rivers, as well as trampling human rights.
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 […]
Read MoreTerrorismo en Intag?
Mina de Cobre Cerro Verde, Perú 15-07-2014 (Terrorismo en Intag) Crónicas del extractivismo neocolonial contemporáneo Horacio Machado Aráoz Rebelión 1.- Luego de varios viajes al Ecuador, es la primera vez que estoy personalmente en la zona de Intag. Sus montañas, de una belleza conmovedora y generosidad exuberante, vienen dando que hablar bastante en las últimas […]
Read MoreIntag Activists to Sue Canadian Stock Exchange and Canadian company
News from Intag 21 Februrary 99 days since Copper Mesa lost their concessions in Intag, AND,—- Community Leaders in Canada to Sue the Toronto Stock Exchange and a Canadian Mining Company Marcia Ramirez and Carlos Zorrilla, community activists from the Intag area of Ecuador, will be visiting Canada from the 25th of February until the […]
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