The people of power are blind and they must be stoped
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.
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> 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.
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> 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 to be forwarded to the Chilean government.
>
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> 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.
>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
>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.