"Civil Society and Academics Call on Canadian DPM Metals Inc to Permanently Shut Down Its Loma Larga Project In Ecuador", 20 November 2025

...Toronto-based mining company DPM Metals Inc. is once again under fire for its environmental track record and relationship with local communities in Ecuador. Yesterday, 106 organizations and 48 university professors, lawyers, Indigenous leaders, and human rights activists sent an open letter to the company urging it to permanently shut down its Loma Larga project in southeastern Ecuador and comply with the law.

The letter is endorsed by 26 Canadian and 80 International civil society organizations and coalitions, representing 18 countries around the world...

The letter comes after a series of important setbacks for the company, including the revocation of its environmental licence by the Ecuadorian government and a complaint filed before the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) against the company...

The open letter highlights the actions carried out by the communities over the last 30 years, in particular the historic march on September 16, 2025, dubbed the “Fifth River of Cuenca”, where more than 100,000 residents of the province of Azuay flooded the streets of Cuenca, demanding the cancellation of the mining concessions to DPM Metals Inc...

The demands of the group letter include respecting the court decisions of 2022, 2023 and 2024 and the two binding referendums of 2019 and 2021. The signatories also throw their support behind mining-affected communities’ calls for the company to refrain from any attempt to file lawsuits in arbitration courts, as Article 422 of the Ecuadorian Constitution prohibits the transfer of sovereign jurisdiction to international arbitration bodies...

A copy of the letter and a complete list of signatories is available here...