an email forward I thought was worth it
Jun. 27th, 2006 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zana16Dear 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 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.
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) andreas eggmann, chamonix, france
20 )jackie ke eble, Mount Maunganui, NZ.
21) Simon Fritchley, Mount Maunganui, NZ.
22) Abi Cross, Plymouth, UK
23) Kirsteen Ruffell, London UK
24) Julian Drummond, Isle of Wight, UK
25) Serena Gower-Johnson, Isle of Wight, UK
26) Angela Gower-Johnson, Isle of Wight, UK
27) Jesuriel Senechal, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
28) Alexander Phelps, Miami Beach, FL, USA
29) Christopher Costa, Keaau,HI,USA
30) Michael DiGiorgio, Ashland,OR USA
31) Melody Gunter, Colchester, UK
32) Sholeh Memauri, Los Angeles, CA USA
33) Katerina Gabbro, Los Angeles, CA USA
34) Meriko Kawashima, Los Angeles, CA, USA
35) Nancy Steiner, Los Angeles, CA USA
36) Casey Storm, Los Angeles, CA USA
37) Mary Wigmore Reynolds NY, NY
38) Phillis Lehmer NY, NY
39) Anne Ross, NYC, NY
40) Rolfe Kent, LA, CA
41) Nick South, Los Angeles, CA USA
42) Ellen South, LA, CA
43) Ronna M. Brown, L.A., CA
44) Ani Garrick, Cambria, CA USA
45)Michael Mideke, Magdalena, NM USA
46) Katy Perlman, Aptos, CA, USA
47) Linda McCue, Aromas, CA, USA
48) Stephanie Keenan, Watsonville, CA USA
49) Janaki Spickard-Keeler, Washington DC USA
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.
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) andreas eggmann, chamonix, france
20 )jackie ke eble, Mount Maunganui, NZ.
21) Simon Fritchley, Mount Maunganui, NZ.
22) Abi Cross, Plymouth, UK
23) Kirsteen Ruffell, London UK
24) Julian Drummond, Isle of Wight, UK
25) Serena Gower-Johnson, Isle of Wight, UK
26) Angela Gower-Johnson, Isle of Wight, UK
27) Jesuriel Senechal, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
28) Alexander Phelps, Miami Beach, FL, USA
29) Christopher Costa, Keaau,HI,USA
30) Michael DiGiorgio, Ashland,OR USA
31) Melody Gunter, Colchester, UK
32) Sholeh Memauri, Los Angeles, CA USA
33) Katerina Gabbro, Los Angeles, CA USA
34) Meriko Kawashima, Los Angeles, CA, USA
35) Nancy Steiner, Los Angeles, CA USA
36) Casey Storm, Los Angeles, CA USA
37) Mary Wigmore Reynolds NY, NY
38) Phillis Lehmer NY, NY
39) Anne Ross, NYC, NY
40) Rolfe Kent, LA, CA
41) Nick South, Los Angeles, CA USA
42) Ellen South, LA, CA
43) Ronna M. Brown, L.A., CA
44) Ani Garrick, Cambria, CA USA
45)Michael Mideke, Magdalena, NM USA
46) Katy Perlman, Aptos, CA, USA
47) Linda McCue, Aromas, CA, USA
48) Stephanie Keenan, Watsonville, CA USA
49) Janaki Spickard-Keeler, Washington DC USA