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May 2006 
An Action Opportunity
Posted on May 22nd, 2006
by 
Monica
Monica
A friend forwarded this to me and I decided to post it here. If you are interested in taking action on this project, copy the message below, paste it in an email, follow the instructions and send it to your action network.
Thanks!
____________________________________________________________________
Hi there dear friends who care about our earth...
Judge for yourself if you want to take action.
Just passing along the information.
Giving thanks for the blessed waters...
Here is the scoop...
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
his 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 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. (ZZZlink to
Barrick Gold's
website for this project;
http://www.barrick.com/Default.aspx?SectionId=AE16ED96-78D3-4451-
AB11-281B502746FB&LanguageId=1&ProjectID=8fadb7a7-1b99-4e7b-a37d
-9da4b178f0b2)
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) Rebecca Dearden , Cumbria, UK
20) Russell Adams , Cumbria, UK
21) Rachel Hearne, Lancashire , UK
22) Gerda Kloos, Lancashire,UK
23) Pamela White, London , UK
24) Ros Bedlow, London , UK
25) Luis Hinojosa, Witham , UK
26) Pedro Rojo, Santiago , Chile 27) Carolina
jaramillo, Cheltenham, UK
28) Beatriz jaramillo, Santiago, Chile
29) Gabriela Sepulveda, Santiago , Chile
30) Andrea Rossi, Santiago , Chile
31) Amanda Abbott, Ann Arbor , MI, USA
32) Emily Abbott, Brockton , MA,USA
33) Jonathan Betsch, Brockton , MA, USA
34) Sharon Romeo, Medford , MA, USA
35) Lois Martin, Tucson , AZ, USA
36) Barbara Eisele, Tucson , AZ USA 37) Janet Rae,
Tucson , AZ USA
38) Lori
Ryder, Tucson , AZ, USA
39) Karen Bauernschmidt, Phoenix AZ, USA 40) Kerry
McClure, Phoenix AZ,USA
41) Don Titmus, Mesa , AZ usa 42) Jennifer Linder
Anderson , Phoenix, AZ,usa
43) Sirena Squires, Chico , CA
44) Auro`Ea Terra Nova
45) Gentle Thunder , Mt. Shasta, CA
46) Chava LeBarton, Los Angeles , CA, USA 47) Alexis
Shaffer, Cancun,Mexico
47) Ranjit Sivaprakasam, Los Angeles, CA, USA
49] Ken Wolkoff, Utah, USA
50) Amanda Welles, CA, USA
51) James V. Hart
52) Nile S. Nash, California, USA
53) Azita Moallef, CA,USA
54) Tom Tierney, CA, USA
55) Dianne Terney, CA, USA
560 Sahara Devi, Hawaii
57) Edward Holleman Breathitt , AZ ,USA
58) Jonne Monet, Co, USA
59) Todd Krohn, WI, USA
60) Monica Warden, CA, USA
Thanks!
____________________________________________________________________
Hi there dear friends who care about our earth...
Judge for yourself if you want to take action.
Just passing along the information.
Giving thanks for the blessed waters...
Here is the scoop...
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
his 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 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. (ZZZlink to
Barrick Gold's
website for this project;
http://www.barrick.com/Default.aspx?SectionId=AE16ED96-78D3-4451-
AB11-281B502746FB&LanguageId=1&ProjectID=8fadb7a7-1b99-4e7b-a37d
-9da4b178f0b2)
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) Rebecca Dearden , Cumbria, UK
20) Russell Adams , Cumbria, UK
21) Rachel Hearne, Lancashire , UK
22) Gerda Kloos, Lancashire,UK
23) Pamela White, London , UK
24) Ros Bedlow, London , UK
25) Luis Hinojosa, Witham , UK
26) Pedro Rojo, Santiago , Chile 27) Carolina
jaramillo, Cheltenham, UK
28) Beatriz jaramillo, Santiago, Chile
29) Gabriela Sepulveda, Santiago , Chile
30) Andrea Rossi, Santiago , Chile
31) Amanda Abbott, Ann Arbor , MI, USA
32) Emily Abbott, Brockton , MA,USA
33) Jonathan Betsch, Brockton , MA, USA
34) Sharon Romeo, Medford , MA, USA
35) Lois Martin, Tucson , AZ, USA
36) Barbara Eisele, Tucson , AZ USA 37) Janet Rae,
Tucson , AZ USA
38) Lori
Ryder, Tucson , AZ, USA
39) Karen Bauernschmidt, Phoenix AZ, USA 40) Kerry
McClure, Phoenix AZ,USA
41) Don Titmus, Mesa , AZ usa 42) Jennifer Linder
Anderson , Phoenix, AZ,usa
43) Sirena Squires, Chico , CA
44) Auro`Ea Terra Nova
45) Gentle Thunder , Mt. Shasta, CA
46) Chava LeBarton, Los Angeles , CA, USA 47) Alexis
Shaffer, Cancun,Mexico
47) Ranjit Sivaprakasam, Los Angeles, CA, USA
49] Ken Wolkoff, Utah, USA
50) Amanda Welles, CA, USA
51) James V. Hart
52) Nile S. Nash, California, USA
53) Azita Moallef, CA,USA
54) Tom Tierney, CA, USA
55) Dianne Terney, CA, USA
560 Sahara Devi, Hawaii
57) Edward Holleman Breathitt , AZ ,USA
58) Jonne Monet, Co, USA
59) Todd Krohn, WI, USA
60) Monica Warden, CA, USA
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