Protesting Ascendant Copper CorporationStore this angel in big size(Ottawa, June 14, 2006) On the eve of a federal government-led action to agitation acclimation the activities of Canadian mining companies abroad*, Friends of the Earth has formally petitioned the Auditor General to investigate a inferior mining company’s activities in Ecuador’s endangered Cloud Forest.
“The Canadian government provides massive banking and adept abutment to its mining companies, and Ascendant Copper’s activities (ACX) action a bright archetype of how these companies are accepting accustomed to “fly the Canadian flag” abroad with arrant apathy for Canadian ethics of peace, capitalism and accumulated accountability,” says Beatrice Olivastri, CEO Friends of the Earth Canada. “The autonomous codes of conduct acclimated to adapt mining companies are acutely not alive and FOE urges the Harper government to use the befalling provided by the roundtable action to put into convenance the accountability agreement it so generally refers to.”
The address submits affidavit in the anatomy of a documentary blur on association agitation incited by Ascendant Copper approach to attenuate the communities’ bidding ambition to assure the Intag Cloud Forest from mining exploitation, which can be beheld at www.ascendantalert.ca. It calls on federal Ministers to detail Canada’s accouterment of financial, adept and action abutment for the activities of Canadian congenital mining entities that accomplish abroad and requests added letters on the administration of agnate laws and accountability on assorted codes of practice.
“In a bearings area even the Ecuadorian Minister of Energy and Mines is autograph to Ascendant advertence that it is anxious with the accretion of battle in the Intag and abdicating the government’s albatross for the amusing problems acquired by the company’s activities, area are the afflicted communities to turn?” asks Andrée Germain, International Campaigner for Friends of the Earth. “When you accept to the Minister of Foreign Affairs allocution about Canada’s account for democracy, animal rights, the aphorism of law, aboriginal issues, noncombatant association accord and accumulated amusing responsibility, you accept to admiration if he’s even acquainted of the role his government is arena in facilitating the advance of mining in the Intag Cloud Forest.”
“The development of the proposed Junin mine, an big-ticket White Elephant, is absolutely at allowance with what we apprehend about Canadian values,” says Carlos Zorrilla, President of Decoin. “We are abashed and abashed by Ascendant Copper’s base approach that ride roughshod over autonomous processes, breeding abysmal amusing conflicts in our area. Is this the affectionate of aggregation that represents Canada today?”
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*The aboriginal of the Canadian government’s civic roundtables on accumulated amusing albatross (CSR) and the extractives area takes abode in Vancouver on June 14-15. It brings Canadian and all-embracing experts calm to participate in discussions on all-embracing animal rights and ecology standards and benchmarks while operating abroad.
Friends of the Earth is a articulation for the environment, nationally and internationally, alive with others to affect the face-lifting of our communities and the earth, through research, apprenticeship and advocacy.
Beatrice Olivastri, CEO, Friends of the Earth Canada, corpuscle 613-724-8690
Carlos Zorrilla, President Defensa y Conservación Ecológica de Intag (DECOIN) ++593 6 2648509 or intagcz@imbanet.net
Andrée Germain, International Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Canada 613-241-0085 ext.30
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