Ecuador: Court revokes environmental licence of the Llurimagua mining project after confirming violations of the right to consultation and environmental rights
Resumo
Data informada: 30 Mar 2023
Localização: Equador
Empresas
Llurimagua (JV between CODELCO and ENAMI) - Parent CompanyProjetos
LlurimaguaAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Comunidade: ( Número desconhecido - Equador - Setor desconhecido , Gender not reported )Temas
Clean, Healthy & Sustainable Environment , Avaliação de Impactos , Consulta livre, prévia e informadaResposta
Response sought: Não
Tipo de fonte: Regulatory action
“Ecuadoran court suspends US$3bn Llurimagua project” – 30 Mar 2023
...A court has revoked the environmental license for the US$3bn Llurimagua copper-molybdenum project in Ecuador and ordered the suspension of all mining activity.
Llurimagua is a JV between Ecuador's state miner Enami EP and Chilean state copper miner Codelco.
the environment ministry granted the license in 2014 "based on an environmental impact study, in violation of the rights [of surrounding communities] to be consulted on environmental issues and rights to the protection of the nature"...