>>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 especially 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 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 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
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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) 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, U.K.
>>21) Barry Cook, Todmorden, U.K.
>>22) Shelley Burgoyne, Todmorden, U.K.
>>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
>>29) Alicia Paterson, Brisbane, Australia
>>30) Lyneve Robinson, Sydney, Australia
>>31) Jennifer Moalem, Sydney, Australia
>>32) Alexandra Pope, Sydney Australia
>>33) Shushann Movsessian, Sydney Australia
>>34) Amanda Frost
>>35) Chris Liddell, AUS
>>36)Jade Deegan, AUS
>>37)Jo Saton, AUS
>>38) Jennie Gorman, Vic AUS
>>39) Jo Ann Bannworth Mission, Texas U.S.A.
>>40) Joanna Gabriel Ashland, OR USA
>>41) Dr. Jodine Cognato, Eagle Point, OR, USA
>>42)Sariah Mikaels, California, USA
>>43)Tom Rudholm, Modesto, CA, USA
>>44)Joan Rudholm, Modesto, CA, USA
>>45) Dr. Kathy O'Fallon, CA, USA
>>46) Captain Thomas Wilcox, USA
>>47) Tania Teh, Malaysia
>>48) Ila Zadrozny, S.C. Brazil
>>49) Srimoyi , Samasti, Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India
>>50) Joy, Dana, Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India
>>51)Aurosylle,Reve,Auroville,T.N. India
>>52)revati mukerjee,&nb sp; t.n. india
>>53)rukhmini krishnan, T.N, India
>>54) Britt Wilks-Lingam, Singapore
>>55) Jane Castledine, Singapore
>>56) Victoria Sheffield, Tokyo, Japan
>>57) Cassia Smith Bingham, London, uk
>>58) Miranda Barran, Mendham, UK
>>59) Patsy Hickman London, UK. citizen UK and USA.
>>60) Miriam Hastings, London, UK
>>61) Caroline Carver, Cornwall UK
>>62) Helen Wood, Cornwall UK
>>63) Diana Gittins, Devon UK
>>64) Geoff Barr, Devon UK
>>65) Dave Hookes. Liverpool, UK
>>66) Tim Mercer, Preston, UK
>>67) Kath Mercer ,Preston, UK
>>68 Alison Threadgould Preston UK
>>69) Margery Rowell, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
>> 70) Katy Radford, Belfast, Northern Ireland
71] Uzramma, Hyderabad, India
72) Yash, Kolkata, India
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