> > 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) Jane Bennett, Harcourt North, Vic, Australia
> > 34) Judy Munro, Castlemaine. Vic. 3450 Australia
> > 35) Joan Webster, Castlemaine. Vic. 3450 Australia
> > 36) Frances McMenomy, Vic. 3109 Australia
> > 37) Steve Baxter Victoria 3892 Australia
> > 38) Gerry Thurlings, Bruthen, Vic, Australia
> > 39) Eva Grunden, Bruthen, Victoria, Australia 3885
> > 40) narelle Warren, melbourne, australia
> > 41) Rachel Thornton, Melbourne, Australia
> > 42) Rebecca Mar Young, Sydney, Australia
> > 43) Ken Wagstaff, Sydney, Australia
> > 44) John Dunn, Sydney, Australia
> > 45) Marcus Rinaldi, New Zealand
> > 46) Melissa van Horen, New Zealand
> > 47) Melissah d Commens, holland.
> > 48) Steven Crisci Mira .Spain
> > 49) Steph Hills, London
> > 50) Alastair Parker, London, UK
> > 51) Sam Brookes, London UK
> > 52) Penny Scrivener, UK
> > 53) Wendy Young, UK
> > 54) Makaela Herz, Shrewsbury, UK
> > 55) Val Adie, Callander, Scotland, UK
> > 56) Dorothy Thomson, Kirkcaldy, Scotland, UK
> > 57) Archie Thomson, Kirkcaldy, Scotland, UK
> > 58) May Crombie, Callander, Scotland, UK
> > 59) Fiona McOwan, Limekilns, Scotland, UK
> > 60) Mary Henderson, Dundee, Scotland, UK
> > 61) Catherine Appleby, Gloucestershire UK
> > 62) Mary Wood, Gloucestershire UK
> > 63) Gerard Morgan, Ireland
> > 64) Sabine Weissbach, Ireland
> > 65) Ken Ralph, Ireland
> > 66) PJ Curtis, Ireland.
> > 67) Desmond Travers, Ireland.
> > 68) Nicholas McMahon, Ireland
> > 69) Mary McMahon, Ireland
> > 70) John Gilmore, Ireland
> > 71) Brendan MacQuillan, Ireland
> > 72) Gerri Smith, Ireland
> > 73) Eoghan O'Brien, Ulster, Ireland
> > 74) Frank Kilkelly, Galway, Ireland
> > 75) Heidi Pearson, Edinburgh, Scotland
> > 76) Pete Challoner, Newcastle, England
> > 77) Sonja O'Brien, Ireland
> > 78) Stéphanie Couvé, France
> > 79) Anaïs Guéguen, Bretagne, France
> > 80) Luis Alberto Villalobos Alvarez, Mexico
> > 81) Magaly Medina Pérez, México
> > 82) Marlon Miranda Bañuelos, México
> > 83) Jesus Elpidio Pérez Gutiérrez, México