Ecuador's Shuar Arutam indigenous people said on Friday they will not allow mining on their territory, threatening a large copper mining operation in the Andean country, after a court ruled their rights to prior consultation were violated.
Ecuador's Constitutional Court in September ruled the environmental permit granted in 2011 for the major San Carlos Panantza copper project required a consultation with the Shuar Arutam community, but this was not carried out.
"Companies do not have to continue granting concessions on our lands, we will not accept more entries into our territories," said community president Josefina Tunki. "We will always be ready to defend our autonomous lands." Nathaly Yepez, an Amazon Watch lawyer representing the communities who have waged legal battles for years, said subsequent consultations "cannot be equivalent to correcting company mistakes."
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