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Fwd: Chilean Petition
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ann hallam
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May 26, 2006 03:47 PDT
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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.
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 every 100th
person to receive and sign the petition send it to
noapasc-@yahoo.ca
to be forwarded to the Chilean government.
1. Kathryn Regan, Sedgefield, UK
2. Emma Adamson, Fence Houses, UK
3. J.Blakeburn,Greenwich, UK
4. Janna Goodwille, Greenwich, UK
5. Bea Ross-Lowe, London, UK
6. Daisy Crawford, Edinburgh, UK
7. Digby Halsby, London, UK
8. Amy Sollitt, London, UK
9. Lucy Sollitt, London, UK
10. Allison Best, Newcastle, UK
11. Gaylie Runciman, Glasgow, UK
12. Steven Whinnery, London, Uk
13. hayley carmichael. london.uk
14. Ghislaine Granger, London, UK
15. Richard Lee, London UK
16. Clair Montier, Brighton UK
17. Jonathan Lea-Howarth, Brighton UK
18. Kate Hallam, Brighton UK
19. Ann Hallam, Brighton UK
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