Intag

Reproduction of article by Martin Zorrilla There are places on this earth that feel too precious to lose. The richness and diversity of life is breathtaking in these places. The branches of the trees groan with universes unto themselves, with the entangled roots of epiphytes and insects unknown to science…

Alberto Acosta(1), Carlos Zorrilla(2) “Someday America will have the voice of a continent, a voice of a united people. A voice that will be respected and heard; because it will be the voice of people who are masters of their own destiny”. Salvador Allende Ecuador is relatively new in the…

Can We Avoid Creating a Worse Environmental Crisis While trying to Solve the Climate One? Carlos Zorrilla Everyone knows what needs to be done to bring down CO2 levels; pump less of it into the atmosphere. You do that by, mostly, burning less fossil fuels. Instead, it’s all about mass…

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…

And what the press is not telling the world Carlos Zorrilla Now that the international arbitration requested by the Chilean mining giant Codelco against the Ecuador is attracting worldwide attention, it feels like the right time to inform the public a little bit about what is behind the arbitration, and…

Rebekah Hayden September 25 2020 A Constitutional Protection Action could protect the Rights of Nature over the economic rights of transnational companies in Ecuador’s Intag Valley. The Intag valley in the Imbabura province, high up in north-west of Ecuador, should be a peaceful place. …

A Massive Copper Deposit, a Rights-of Nature Case, and the Destiny of Two Species of Frog Carlos Zorrilla* They seem so insignificant, two frogs no more than 4 centimeters in length. …

Carlos Zorrilla About four years ago I wrote the first of what would eventually be three versions of the “21 Reasons why Codelco Should Stay Away From Intag.” Not too long afterwards, it became Twenty-two when a new species of frog which thought extinct was discovered in the Llurimagua mining…

Carlos Zorrilla The government of Ecuador has been busy trying sell its share of the troubled Llurimagua copper project to a third party of late. Right now it is owned by two state-owned mining companies, Ecuador’s ENAMI and the Chilean giant, CODELCO, the world’s largest copper producer. Big names like…