Deadly landslide buries Ecuador town, killing 28 in region earmarked for mining by Australian mining company SolGold. On Sunday 26 March, a massive landslide caused a large chunk of a mountainside to partially bury the isolated highland town of Alausí, in Chimborazo province, Ecuador – a region destined for mining activity by Australian company SolGold. … Read More
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New report on SolGold backer Jiangxi
Rainforest Action Group launches its new report today on Jiangxi Copper, the Chinese mining company which invested $36 million US into SolGold in December Only weeks after Canada ordered three Chinese companies to give up their investments in Canadian minerals in November 2022, citing national security, SolGold announced Jiangxi would become a new investors to … Read More
Gina Rinehart considered “personally responsible” for human rights abuses in Buenos Aires, Ecuador
Gina Rinehart is “personally responsible” for abuses of human rights and constitutional law, say community members in Buenos Aires, Ecuador. Hanrine, her Ecuador subsidiary is again being denounced by community groups in Ecuador for its use of public forces to forcibly enter private and community properties, in order to build a new mining camp at … Read More
Ecuador Army attack peaceful civilians resisting Rinehart mining on their land
Gina Rinehart’s Hanrine mining concessions in north-east Ecuador are again hotbeds of unrest, with Ecuador’s Army using violence and tear gas to clear streets of citizens to allow Hanrine’s employees to pass during national strike. On June 18, the army threw around 30 tear gas grenades, triple action gas grenades and long distance projectiles at … Read More
Win for Los Cedros Reserve could impact mining concessions across Ecuador
Los Cedros Reserve to be protected from mining after comprehensive Ecuador Constitutional Court ruling on Rights of Nature and the environment In a significant ruling on December 1, the Ecuador Constitutional Court revoked the water and environmental rights of Cornerstone Capital Resources and the Ecuador state mining company (ENAMI) for the Rio Magdalena concessions that … Read More
Ecuador legal system manipulated in Rinehart company case
The National Council of the Judiciary in Ecuador confirmed the presence of irregularities and manipulation of the judicial computer system in the Protective Action that allowed Gina Rinehart subsidiary Hanrine to forcibly enter the town of Buenos Aires on August 3. The investigation was carried out by the National Directorate of Management Transparency after Assemblyman … Read More
Human rights violations at Gina Rinehart’s Ecuador mining concession
Approximately 500 armed national police stormed Buenos Aires in the early hours of the 3rd August, using tear gas and military trucks to forcibly clear a path through the town for the mining company Hanrine in what locals say is a significant human rights violation. This was despite a court ruling in June that gave … Read More
Judge rules Rinehart’s Ecuador subsidiary must not block public road
Hundreds of workers from Rinehart’s subsidiary Hanrine have blocked the only road to the town of Buenos Aires in north-west Ecuador for more than 40 days, hoping to force locals to allow them passage through the town to the concession Imba 1. The judge of the Urcuquí Multicompetent Unit, Manuel Sucuzhañay, today accepted the Precautionary … Read More
Gina Rinehart’s Ecuador concession faces new trouble
The Ombudsman’s Office of Ecuador has called on the National Government to suspend all mining activities in the Buenos Aires parish where Rinehart has several concessions, after what it deemed was excessive military force against inhabitants resisting mining. The Buenos Aires community says they have not been consulted and do not want a mine in … Read More
New report on Solgold in Ecuador
The report “SolGold in Ecuador; Solgold’s woes continue” investigates each of SolGold’s priority projects in Ecuador, as well as the company’s financial situation; looking at environmental risk and community resistance to projects, as well as risk to concessions near the Colombian border from increasing instability due to ex-FARC dissidents, illegal mining and cocaine production. The … Read More
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