Ecuador

Canadian Embassies Bring Journalists to Mining Convention from Countries Mired in Conflict
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

News release: This week, Canadian taxpayers will cover the costs of eleven journalists from eight Latin American countries – and Mongolia – to attend the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s (PDAC) 2012 conference. This appears to be another attempt on the part of Canadian authorities to manage the message instead of seriously addressing the roots of mine conflicts in countries such as Argentina, Honduras, Guatemala, Peru, and Ecuador.

Argentina, British Columbia, Corporate Accountability, New Brunswick, Corporate Social Responsibility, Ecuador, Ontario, Guatemala, Québec, Honduras, Barrick Gold, Peru, Impact on Communities, Corriente Resources, Goldcorp, IAMGOLD, Kinross, Osisko Mining
International Organizations Protest Against the Criminalization of Environmental Defenders in Ecuador
Saturday, September 24, 2011

Open Letter: Civil society organizations in the US and Canada have sent a letter to Ecuadorian authorities in protest against the criminalization of indigenous and non-indigenous environmental defenders. Specifically, the letter speaks out against the criminalization of three leaders in the south-central province of Azuay who have been protesting IAMGOLD's proposed gold-silver project situated in the headwaters of dairy-producing communities.

Water, Ecuador, Human Rights, IAMGOLD
Canada-Ecuador: When Stock Exchanges Fuel Human Rights Violations
Thursday, December 24, 2009

Recently, Toronto-based Pinetree Capital bought a few million shares of Copper Mesa Mining Corporation, making it the largest share owner of a failing company currently embroiled in a lawsuit . The takeover raised the price of its penny stock upwards to between three and five cents. Copper Mesa, however, got a lot more than what it bargained for.

Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Ecuador, Copper Mesa/Ascendant Copper
What Role for Canada in the Americas? Corporate Accountability and the Extractive Industries
Sunday, April 5, 2009

What Role for Canada in the Americas?
Meeting the Challenge of Human Rights, Democratic Development, and Economic Justice in a Time of Global Crisis

A Policy Roundtable organized by CCIC’s Americas Policy Group

“Corporate Accountability and the Extractive Industries”

Presentation Notes
Jamie Kneen
MiningWatch Canada

Corporate Accountability, Latin America and the Caribbean, Corporate Social Responsibility, Ecuador, Copper Mesa/Ascendant Copper, Presentations
Ecuador
Monday, January 5, 2009

Since the early 1990s, the Intag region of Imbabura in northwestern Ecuador has been the target of mining exploration. Japanese and then Canadian interests have claimed substantial finds of copper, and have promoted the idea of building a huge open-pit mine in the middle of one of the most biodiverse areas in the world – the Intag cloud forest falls into both the Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena and Tropical Andes hotspots, according to Conservation International.

Ecuador
State of Mine: The Dominion Newspaper's Special Issue on Mining
Monday, November 17, 2008

The Dominion Newspaper is a cooperative, independent, grass roots publication. A special edition, State of Mine: An Investigation of Canada's Extractive Industries was published in November 2008 and is available online at: www.dominionpaper.ca/issue/55. The online edition features 37 articles on mining issues in Canada and internationally, including articles by MiningWatch Canada's Ramsey Hart and former National Coordinator Joan Kuyek.

Argentina, Asbestos in Québec, Congo - Democratic Republic, Labrador, Udon Thani - Asia Pacific Resources, British Columbia, Nevada, Newfoundland & Labrador, Coal, New Caledonia, Tanzania, Ecuador, Papua New Guinea, El Salvador, Ontario, Guatemala, Economics & Taxation, Mexico, Suriname, Impact on Communities, Tar Sands, Uranium, World Bank/International Financial Institutions
Ecuador: Government Shuts Down Ascendant Copper’s Junín Project
Friday, September 28, 2007
(Ottawa/Intag) Canadian junior mining company Ascendant Copper Corporation’s ambitions to develop a major copper mine in the Intag region of northwestern Ecuador were dealt a serious blow on September 25, 2007, when restrictions on the company’s activities in the area turned into a total prohibition. Ecuador’s Minister ...
Ecuador, Copper Mesa/Ascendant Copper, Rio Tinto
MiningWatch Responds to the National Post
Wednesday, August 22, 2007

MiningWatch Canada has responded to three articles written by Peter Foster for the Financial Post section of the National Post, as well as to one erroneous correction that ran in the Financial Post. For more information about the situation in Ecuador, see MiningWatch Canada's recent analysis: Canadian Mining Investment in Southeast Ecuador Exacerbates Divisions, Conflicts.

Ecuador
Ascendant ordered to stop community relations at Junin Project, loses major investor
Monday, July 23, 2007

The Ministry of Energy and Mines in Ecuador has ordered Ascendant Copper Corporation (Ascendant) to “immediately cease all activities intended to divide the community and disturb the citizenry’s peaceful life” around its proposed Junin Project. The company is facing numerous setbacks, including the recent order to stop community relations work, high levels of community opposition and the withdrawal of a major shareholder.

Ecuador, Copper Mesa/Ascendant Copper
Canadian Mining Investment in Southeast Ecuador Exacerbates Divisions, Conflicts
Wednesday, July 18, 2007

This analysis was undertaken following the publication of two letters accusing MiningWatch Canada of “genocide” and of keeping the Shuar people of Southeast Ecuador in poverty (see MiningWatch Responds to Ecuadorian Letters). The letters make special reference to Corriente Resources’ ‘Mirador’ project.

Corporate Social Responsibility, Ecuador, Copper Mesa/Ascendant Copper, Corriente Resources, IAMGOLD

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