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Chile
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
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.
by
Sarah Van den Elsken
at
Tue Jun 13 15:27:54 UTC 2006
Balen,
Belgium
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