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Pascua Lama Project

Mercury | 18.05.2006 07:41 | Ecology | Health | Social Struggles | World

VERY URGENT!

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 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  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.

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, Sydney, Australia

35) Chris Liddell, Sydney, Australia

36) Jade Deegan, Sydney, Australia

37) Jo Satori, Sydney, Australia

38) Philip Higson, Sydney, Australia

39 Cheryl Kemp, Dorrigo, Australia

40) Chris Peacock, Maitland, Australia

41) Gloria Peacock, Maitland, Australia

42) Helen McCall, Duns Creek, Australia

43) Raquel Carvajal, Arncliffe, Australia :-)

44) Rolando Ramos, Arncliffe, Australia

45) Martin Ramos, Paddington, Australia

46) Jade Carden, Leichhardt, Australia

47) Kira Carden, Leichhardt, Australia

48) Lilian Flores, Arncliffe, Australia

49) Upekha Nadarajah, Coogee, Australia

50) Annie Pettitt, Coogee, Australia

51) Simone Elias, Fitzroy, Australia

52) Mishelle Predika, Thornbury, Australia.

53) Anna Vidali, Melbourne, Australia







Simone Elias
Legal Projects Officer
Fitzroy Legal Service Inc. I 124 Johnston Street, Fitzroy VIC 3065 I PO
Box 297, Fitzroy 3065 I DX 96611, Fitzroy I
Phone (03) 9419 3744 I Fax (03) 9416 1124 I Email
 selias@fitzroy-legal.org.au

Mercury

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The world is on a downhill slide

25.05.2006 23:08

The world is on a downhill slide and if we don't band together and restrict the irrepairable damage being done then we will kill uorselves. Maybe not ouselves today or tomorro but certainly ou species in the near future. I say no to globalization and the american capitalist movement. Sign up to Kyoto and lets fix this.

Martin Cottrell