Ecuador: Mega-Mining Takes Off

Ecuador: Mega-Mining Takes Off   Luis Ángel Saavedra, 2012   On March 5, Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa signed a large-scale mining contract — the first of this type in the country — with Chinese company Ecuacorrientes, or ECSA. The next day, environmentalist organizations staged a series of protests. They announced they would block the execution of the contract, stating that it does not include the environmental permits that would have laid out a plan to avoid environmental damage...

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