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Veinticinco razones por qué Codelco no se debe meter en Intag

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Carlos Zorrilla (actualizado octubre-2023) ACTUALIZACIÓN:: #25 DESPUÉS DE CASI 3 DÉCADAS DE LUCHA, LAS COMUNIDADES DE INTAG TRIUNFAN! 29 DE MARZO 2023: La Corte Provincial de Imbabura finalmente le dio la razón a las comunidades y falló en contra del proyecto minero Llurimagua, revocando la licencia ambiental y ordenando un cese total a toda actividad […]

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Codelco, Copper, Intag, Biodiversity PDAC

ECUADOR’S MINING DELUSION: SOME HARD TRUTHS

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It´s that time of year when, in Canada, the mining industry gathers to promote a surreal image of itself to a unbelieving world.

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Una historia de dos ranas, seis empresas mineras y mucho, mucho más

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carlos zorrilla A simple vista, es fácil tener la impresión de que se trata de una lucha de dos ranas en peligro crítico de extinción contra un proyecto minero de cobre transnacional masivo. En parte, tendrías razón. Pero es mucho más que eso. Se podría decir que todo comenzó en la década de 1980 cuando una expedición […]

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A tale of two frogs, six mining companies and much, much more

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Carlos Zorrilla From the outside looking in, it’s easy to get the impression that it’s a black-and-white struggle of two critically endangered frogs versus a massive transnational copper mining project. In part, you’d be right. But it’s much more than that. It could be said that it all started in the 1980’s when a Belgian-government […]

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The dirty truth about clean energy

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Everyone knows what needs to be done to bring down CO2 levels; pump less of it into the atmosphere. But instead of reducing overall energy consumption, the focus is on increasing ‘green’ energy consumption: electric vehicles, massive electric storage installations, …

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CODELCO EL SUBIMPERIALISMO MINERO CHILENO…2 Alberto Acosta[1], Carlos Zorrilla[2] “Algún día América tendrá una voz de continente, una voz de pueblo unido. Una voz que será respetada y oída; porque será la voz de pueblos dueños de su propio destino”.   Salvador Allende Ecuador es un país relativamente nuevo en el mundo de la minería transnacional. […]

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Comisión de biodiversidad fiscalizará a sectores minero, petrolero, hidrocarburos e hidroeléctricas en Ecuador

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Comunicado de Prensa Bnamericas Publicado: lunes, 20 septiembre, 2021 Comunidad Asamblea Nacional Con ocho votos, la Comisión de Biodiversidad resolvió iniciar el proceso de fiscalización a los sectores estratégicos y la regularización ambiental a todo tipo de minería en Ecuador; el seguimiento y control de concesiones mineras y plantas de beneficios; así como, en los […]

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From Intag’s local governments and organizations: Dear Codelco, BHP, Cornerstone and Sunstone

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(Letter was physically delivered to companies and government officials in Quito, 12-Sept-2021) IF you withhold this information from your financiers and shareholders, you will be withholding material information. But you know that, right?? Intag Zone, Province of lmbabura, Ecuador August 24, 2021 Theme: Unconsulted mining in our territories threatens water sources. To the CEOs and […]

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El problemático proyecto minero de Llurimagua en Ecuador

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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.

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Ecuador’s Mining Days Are Numbered

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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 […]

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Major legal victory for endemic species in Ecuador and the Rights of Nature

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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 […]

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When I think of the copper laying below Intag’s forests

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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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NEW DOCUMENTARY ON THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS IN INTAG’S STRUGGLE AGAINST THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY

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This short documentary highlights one of the most powerful forces communities come up against in their resistance to extractivism that most people don’t know about. After you watch the documentary you will see what a miracle it is when communities defeat multinational coorporations. Intag has sucessfully struggled agains six of these corporations these past 39 […]

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INTAG INSISTE EN MORATORIA MINERA

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Ruptura de piscina de relaves en mina de oro galvaniza oposición Texto completo e imágenes siguen: Intag 10 de noviembre 2023 A las comunidades y Gobiernos Parroquiales de la zona de Intag Ministerio del Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica Municipio de Cotacachi Medios de comunicación A la ciudadanía del país ASUNTO: Ruptura de piscina de […]

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ECUADOR: THE WAR FOR THE IMBABURA COPPER BELT

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Published 6 July del 2021 by PLAN V Magazine https://www.planv.com.ec/investigacion/investigacion/ecuador-la-guerra-el-cinturon-del-cobre-imbabura Last May, there was a mobilization of Hanrine company workers against the National Police Command in Quito. The company has accused this institution and the Ministry of Government of not opening the public access road to one of the concessions, which is occupied by the […]

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Ecuador court upholds ‘rights of nature,’ blocks Intag Valley copper mine

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by Liz Kimbrough on 31 March 2023 Communities in the Intag Valley of Ecuador have won a significant legal victory after a court ruled to halt copper mining in one of the world’s most biodiverse forests. The Imbabura Provincial Court ruled on March 29 that Chilean copper producer Codelco and Ecuador’s Empresa Nacional Minera (ENAMI EP) had […]

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ELEMENTOS PARA PROTEGER A SU COMUNIDAD DE LAS INDUSTRIAS EXTRACTIVAS

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Carlos Zorrilla En el 2009, junto a varios colaboradores, escribí el manual “Protegiendo a su comunidad en contra de empresas mineras y otras industrias extractivas”. El objetivo fue informar a las comunidades de los principales problemas y amenazas que se presentan cuando empresas extractivas se interesan en explorar o explotar recursos naturales en territorios comunitarios. […]

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LAS LECCIONES DE LA MINA OK TEDI PARA INTAG Y EL ECUADOR

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¿Qué le sucede a un río y sus comunidades río abajo, las áreas agrícolas, la fauna y flora, y a los pobladores que dependen del río cuando se construye una mina donde no se debe construir? ¿Qué se puede aprender de casos cómo la mina de Ok Tedi para nuestra zona y el resto del […]

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ACCOUNTABLE MINING

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(Minería que rinde cuentas) Publicado en inglés por Transparencia Internacional Traducido del ingles: Fuente:https://www.transparency.org/en/projects/accountable-mining Apuntar al inicio de la cadena de valor significa que podemos prevenir la corrupción incluso antes de que se empiece a construir. Trabajando a través de nuestra red global, investigamos dónde y cómo la corrupción puede afianzarse en el sector minero. Nos enfocamos […]

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CODELCO’S TROUBLED MINING PROJECT IN INTAG UNDER NEW SCRUTINY

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For nearly 30 years, communities have worked to conserve, restore and defend the cloud forests of the Intag Valley in Ecuador, in what locals say is the longest continuous resistance movement against mining in Latin America.
The tropical Andes are considered the world’s most biodiverse hotspot, ranking first in plant, bird, mammal and amphibian diversity; however, less than 15% of Ecuador’s original cloud forests and only 4% of all forests in northwestern Ecuador remain.
Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, plans to open a mine in the Intag Valley that would destroy primary forest and lie within the buffer area of Cotacachi Cayapas Ecological Reserve — a plan that experts say would be ecologically devastating and not worth the cost.
Communities are using the presence of two threatened frog species — previously thought to be extinct — at the mining site to challenge the project under the “rights of nature,” Ecuador’s constitutional guarantee that natural ecosystems have the right to exist, thrive, and evolve.

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Efectos ambientales de la minería

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((Traducido del ingles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_effects_of_mining 09-2022)) Los efectos ambientales de la minería pueden ocurrir a escala local, regional y global a través de prácticas mineras directas e indirectas. Los efectos pueden resultar en erosión , sumideros , pérdida de biodiversidad o la contaminación del suelo , las aguas subterráneas y las aguas superficiales por los productos químicos emitidos por los procesos mineros. Estos procesos también afectan a la atmósfera por las emisiones de […]

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