permaculture

["Jara" <jara@otenet.gr>]

Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 11:05 PM
Subject: Say no to the Pascula Lama project


 Please read this.. 
Dear friends who care about our earth. 

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 
gottemporary 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

35) Chris Liddell, AUS

36) Jade Deegan, AUS

7) Jo Satori, AUS

38) U. Heidelauf, Brisbane Australia

39) C Heather, Kooralbyn, Australia

40) Johan Ysewijn, Antwerp, Belgium

41) Connie Anderson, Mount Juliet, TN, USA

42) Shelby Carr, Knoxville, TN USA

43)  Gordon A Bolton.  Birmingham UK

44) J Bolton-Glover.  Birmingham UK

45) Ola, Norfolk UK

46) Adam Wilson, London UK

47) S. Dyer, London UK

48) B. Walia, London UK

49) Trevor Hurd, London UK

50) M.Hodgson, New Cross, London UK

51) Jonny Muirhead, London, UK

52) Hayley Nunn, London, UK

53) Alice Haynes, Santiago, Chile

54) Lucila Recart, Norwich, England

55) Veronica Medina-Ross, El Cerrito, CA. (USA)

56) Ginger Bahardar, Bonsall, CA, (USA)


(57)  Jane Stimmel, Fallbrook, CA  (USA)


58)  Maggie Skidmore, Fallbrook, CA (USA)

59) Lurena Hay-Miller, Lyn, ON (Canada)

60) Patricia Cyr, Brockville, ON (Canada)

61)  Pauline Poirier, Cornwall, Ontario ( Canada)

62) Beverley Young, Brockville, On Canada

63) Allison Craig, Ottaws, ON Canada

64) Andrew Clements, Athens, Greece