Maria Daines
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5/17/2006 10:46:41 AM
The little people will be RUINED again....This is serious.....
Just take a read of this... How many more times will the earth be stolen from - FOR GREED!!!!
Dear friends who care about our earth
Judge for yourself if you want to take action.
In the Valle de San Felix, the purest water in Chile
runs from 2 rivers, fed by 2 glaciers. Water is a most
precious resource, and wars will be fought for it.
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. (Barrick Gold is mining at Lake
Cowal, NSW, Australia at the moment!)
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 especially pure water, but
they will permanently contaminate the 2 rivers so that
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 gram 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 e-mail
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 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 and 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.
PLEASE ONLY SEND ON TO ONE AT A TIME SO DUBPLICATIONS DO NOT HAPPEN !
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) Nicola Hargreaves, UK
7) Nicholas Jones, UK
8) Johann Don-Daniel, Germany
9) Ashley Berger, Germany
10) Sarah Downie, Leeds, UK
11) Paula Delahunty, Bingley, UK
12) John O'Driscoll, Bingley, UK
13) Jordan-Lee Delahunty, Bingley, UK
14) Claire Mulvey, Bradford, UK
15) Marie Malcolm, Bradford, UK
16) Ann Clowes, Halifax, UK
17) Jayne McGee, Brighouse, UK
18) Jason Barratt, Oldham, UK
19) Lindsay Torrance, Rochdale, UK
20) Maggie Ford, Rochdale, UK
21) Barry Cook, Todmorden, UK
22) Shelley Burgoyne, Todmorden, UK
23) Lisa Stuart, Potes, Spain
24) Michael Stuart, Potes, Spain
25) Renee Engl, Byron Bay, Australia
26) Adrian Begg, Brunswick Heads, Australia
27) Riana Begg, Brunswick Heads, Australia
28) Oriel Paterson, Brunswick Heads, Australia
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kathryn kates
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5/26/2006 1:17:40 PM
Kathryn Kates, New York City, New York
Dear friends who care about our earth Judge for yourself if you want to take action. In the Valle de San Felix, the purest water in Chile runs from 2 rivers, fed by 2 glaciers. Water is a most precious resource, and wars will be fought for it. 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. (Barrick Gold is mining at Lake Cowal, NSW, Australia at the moment!) 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 especially pure water, but they will permanently contaminate the 2 rivers so that 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 gram 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. Kathryn Kates, NYC, NY
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