CAMPAMENTO DE MINERA CHILENA CODELCO INCENDIADO EN INTAG
El mirador turístico del grupo EcoJunin, que Exploraciones Mineras Andinas Ecuador EMSAEC, la subsidiaria de Codelco en Ecuador, y la Empresa Nacional Mineral del Ecuador, ENAMI EP, transformaron en campamento minero en mayo del 2014 con apoyo de cientos de policías, ha sido incendiado por personas desconocidas este sábado 30 de marzo del 2024. No […]
Read MoreNEW DOCUMENTARY ON THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS IN INTAG’S STRUGGLE AGAINST THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY
- Carlos Zorrilla
- November 29, 2023
- Codelco
- Ecuador
- Human Rights
- Intag
- Llurimagua
- mining
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 […]
Read MoreINTAG INSISTE EN MORATORIA MINERA
- Carlos Zorrilla
- November 11, 2023
- El Corazon
- Intag
- Minera
- Moratoria
- Relavera
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 […]
Read MoreECUADOR: THE WAR FOR THE IMBABURA COPPER BELT
- Carlos Zorrilla
- July 10, 2023
- Ecuador
- Intag
- Llurimagua
- mining
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 […]
Read MoreEcuador court upholds ‘rights of nature,’ blocks Intag Valley copper mine
- Carlos Zorrilla
- April 11, 2023
- CLOUD FOREST
- Codelco
- Copper
- Ecuador
- Intag
- Llurimagua
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 […]
Read MoreELEMENTOS PARA PROTEGER A SU COMUNIDAD DE LAS INDUSTRIAS EXTRACTIVAS
- Carlos Zorrilla
- February 11, 2023
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. […]
Read MoreLAS LECCIONES DE LA MINA OK TEDI PARA INTAG Y EL ECUADOR
- Carlos Zorrilla
- February 10, 2023
¿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 […]
Read MoreACCOUNTABLE MINING
- Carlos Zorrilla
- January 31, 2023
(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 […]
Read MoreCODELCO’S TROUBLED MINING PROJECT IN INTAG UNDER NEW SCRUTINY
- Carlos Zorrilla
- January 10, 2023
- Codelco
- Decoin
- Intag
- Llurimagua
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.