| Stichting Outline on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:34:56 +0200 (CEST) |
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Hello all, Please read and react. Hope all is good with You and I'll be in touch. Please pass this on to all your friends, we're at the half-way mark!!! In the Valle de San Felix, the purest water in Chile runs from 2 rivers, fed by 2 glaciers. Indigenous farmers use the water, there is no unemployment and they provide the second largest source of income for the area. Under the glaciers has been found a huge deposit of gold, silver and other minerals. To get at these, it would be necessary to break, to destroy the glaciers - something never conceived of in the history of the world - and to make 2 huge holes, each as big as a whole mountain,one for extraction and one for the mine's rubbish tip. The project is called PASCUA LAMA. The company is called Barrick Gold. The operation is planned by a multi-national company, one of whose members is George Bush Senior. The Chilean Government has approved the project to start this year, 2006. The only reason it hasn't started yet is because the farmers have got a temporary stay of execution. If they destroy the glaciers, they will not just destroy the source of specially pure water, but they will permanently contaminate the 2 rivers so they will never again be fit for human or animal consumption because of the use of cyanide and sulphuric acid in the extraction process. Every last gramme of gold will go abroad to the multinational company and not one will be left with the people whose land it is. They will only be left with the poisoned water and the resulting illnesses. The farmers have been fighting a long time for their land, but have been forbidden to make a TV appeal by a ban from the Ministry of the Interior. Their only hope now of putting brakes on this project is to get help from international justice. The world must know what is happening in Chile. The only place to start changing the world is from here. We ask you to circulate this message amongst your friends in the following way. Please copy this text, paste it into a new email adding your signature and send it to everyone in your address book. Please will the 100th person to receive and sign the petition send it to noapascualama@yahoo.ca <mailto: noapascualama@yahoo.ca> to be forwarded to the Chilean government. No to Pascua Lama Open-cast mine in the Andean Cordillera on the Chilean-Argentine frontier. We ask the Chilean Government not to authorize the Pascua Lama project to protect the whole of 3 glaciers, the purity of the water of the San Felix Valley and El Transito, the quality of the agricultural land of the region of Atacama, the quality of life of the Diaguita people and of the whole population of the region. Signature, City, Country 1) Katharine Proudfoot, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 2) Laura Cole, London, UK 3) David Platt, London, UK 4) Diane Platt, Manchester, UK 5) Tanya Corker, Manchester, UK 6) Claire Colvine, Liverpool, UK. 7) Charles Williams, Liverpool, UK 8) Mary Williams, Manchester, UK 9)Sarah Wettenhall, Melbourne, Australia 10] Mary Moore, Healesville, Australia 11) Jocelyn Harvey, Madrid, Spain 12) Michelle Campbell, Vancouver, Canada 13) Lynn Irving, Westport, NZ 14) Glenn Irving, Westport, NZ 15) Kate Dermer, Raglan, NZ 16) Joanna McKay, Raglan, NZ 17). Anna Bartlett, palma, spain. 18) Hamish Moeller, Taupo, NZ ! 19) andreas eggmann, chamonix, france 20)jackie ke eble, Mount Maunganui, NZ. 21)Simon Fritchley, Mount Maunganui, NZ. 22)Abi Cross, Plymouth, UK 23) Kirsteen Ruffell, London UK 24) Julian Drummond, Isle of Wight, UK 25) Serena Gower-Johnson, Isle of Wight, UK 26) Angela Gower-Johnson, Isle of Wight, UK 27) Jesuriel Senechal, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA 28) Alexander Phelps, Miami Beach, FL, USA 29) Jana Soukup-Razga, Mt.Elphinstone, BC, CANADA 30) Kristina Keaveney, Sechelt , BC, CANADA 31) Albert S. Genette, Seattle, Washington, USA 32) Dan Covan NYC U.S. 33)Tina Nance,Sydney,Australia 34) Louise Aboud, Sydney, Australia 35 Helen Mendels Sydney Australia 36. Debrah Algar Sydney Australia 37. Della Goswell Sydney Australia 38. Chris Miller Blue Mountains Australia 39. Kellie Walsh, Blue Mountains, Australia 40. Barbara Hoffman, Sydney, Australia 41. Peter Roins, London, England 42. Anna Roins-Fisher, Sydney, AUSTRALIA 43. Louka Miller-Momberg, Sydney, AUSTRALIA 44. Caroline McNeill, Sydney, Australia 45. Dan and Row Clarke, Australia 46. Barbara Lembo and Matthew Lynch, Dublin, Ireland 47. Elaine Hall and Sharyn Hodel - AUSTRALIA 48. Thais Hardman, Victoria, Australia 49. John Saunders, Victoria, Australia. 50. Yasmin Nurmohamed-Callaghan, VIC. Australia 51. Robin Pera, Netherlands 52. Paul Veld, Amsterdam , Netherlands 53. Tom van Heel, Amsterdam , The Netherlands 54. Dirk Jan Jager, The Netherlands
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