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Organisations Challenge Ascendant Copper’s Claims Regarding Junín Mining Project

(Ottawa/Intag) MiningWatch Canada and the Ecuadorian organisation DECOIN (Ecological Defence and Conservation of Intag – Defensa y Conservación Ecológica de Intag) today released documentation showing that Ascendant Copper’s news release dated December 19, 2006, contains inaccuracies and distortions of the facts regarding the company’s ill-fated Junín mining project.

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Ecuador, Copper Mesa/Ascendant Copper

Urgent Action in Support of the Civilian Population of Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador

Ecumenical Human Rights Commission (CEDHU)
Quito

Through this urgent action, and in response to the events that occurred at the beginning of December 2006, we seek the collaboration of all persons interested in stopping human rights abuses against the civilian population of Zamora Chinchipe and Morona Santiago, Ecuador.

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Ecuador, Corriente Resources

The Need to Shift Canadian Tax Incentives

Presentation to the Seventh Annual Global Conference on Environmental Taxation, Ottawa, October 23, 3006 (revised November 10, 2006) by Dr. Joan Kuyek, National Co-ordinator, MiningWatch Canada

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Economic Development, Economics & Taxation, Presentations

Ascendant Copper Ordered to Cease Work: New Web Site Documents Events in Intag, Ecuador

(Ottawa) Ecuador’s Subsecretary for Environmental Protection (of the Ministry of Energy and Mines) has rejected Ascendant Copper’s Environmental Impact Study for the Junín mining project in the Intag region of north-western Ecuador. The decision was taken primarily because the study did not document any consultation with several ...

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Ecuador, Copper Mesa/Ascendant Copper

Conflicts Over Canadian Mining Firm Ecuacorrientes in Zamora, Ecuador

By César Padilla This past October 20, in the gymnasium in the town of El Pangui, in the Ecuadorean jungle in the province of Zamora in the Cordillera del Cóndor, near the city of Cuenca, some 500 people from nearby communities, including indigenous Shuar, met to oppose the mining project of Ecuacorrientes, subsidiary of the Canadian firm Corriente ...

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Ecuador, Copper Mesa/Ascendant Copper, Corriente Resources

There Are No Clean Diamonds: What You Need to Know About Canadian Diamonds

There are no clean diamonds. Exploring for them, digging them out of the ground and selling them requires sacrifices from the natural environment, from the wildlife and fish that live on it, and from the Aboriginal people who depend on it.

We want to ensure that the public understand that Canada’s Aboriginal communities are engaged in a daily power struggle to ensure that the mines benefit their people, and to ensure that these mines do not irreversibly damage the intricate web of life on which we all depend.

Wednesday, December 6, 2006

Canada, Congo - Democratic Republic, Victor Project, Africa, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Diamonds, BHP-Billiton, De Beers, Rio Tinto

Costa Rican Constitutional Court Upholds Cancellation of Crucitas Gold Mining Permit

News Release: Northern Union for Life – Coalition Against Mining in the Northern Zone

Injunction Triumphs – Constitutional Court rules appeal filed by Vannessa Ventures subsidiary Industrias Infinito S.A.

Wednesday, December 6, 2006

Costa Rica, Infinito Gold/Vanessa

Urgent Action: Repression Against Residents, Leaders and Civil Authorities of Morona Santiago and Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador

The situation in Morona Santiago and Zamora Chinchipe, in the south of Ecuador, has grown very serious.

On November 12, a Presidential Order was issued to immediately suspend all mining activity in the area, after massive popular demonstrations against multinational mining companies in the territory.

However, the Canadian-based mining firm Corriente Resources Inc. has continued its operations.

Wednesday, December 6, 2006

Ecuador, Corriente Resources

An Insult to Aboriginal People: A Critique of the Mining Information Kit for Aboriginal Communities

Industry Associations (the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, the Mining Association of Canada, and the Canadian Aboriginal Minerals Association) and Natural Resources Canada have developed and published an “Mining Information Kit for Aboriginal Communities” which they have been heavily promoting since its release in September 2006.

Tuesday, December 5, 2006

Economic Development, Educational Materials, Environment, Impact on Communities, Indigenous Rights

Declaration of the Indigenous World Uranium Summit

(Window Rock, Navajo Nation, USA) We, the Peoples gathered at the Indigenous World Uranium Summit, at this critical time of intensifying nuclear threats to Mother Earth and all life, demand a worldwide ban on uranium mining, processing, enrichment, fuel use, and weapons testing and deployment, and nuclear waste dumping on Native Lands.

Monday, December 4, 2006

Corporate Social Responsibility, Indigenous Rights, Uranium