From Intag’s local governments and organizations: Dear Codelco, BHP, Cornerstone and Sunstone
(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 […]
Read MoreEcuador’s Mining Days Are Numbered
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 […]
Read MoreMajor legal victory for endemic species in Ecuador and the Rights of Nature
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 […]
Read MoreWhen 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 […]
Read MoreIntag: Caserío se rebela contra la minera más grande del mundo
Asamblea de comunidades deja claro que no permitirá más la presencia de la minería en Intag Después de más de dos años de lidiar con intentos agresivos de la empresa Cerro Quebrado, subsidiaria de la gigante de la minería, BHP Billinton (Australia-Reino Unido) la más grande del mundo, de ingresar a las comunidades […]
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 […]
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