[SustainableTompkins] Fw: global warming---stop Chilean mine

[Patricia Haines]

Gold for water - and guess who wins...? again - This would be a good one to get behind stopping NOW,
before the multi-ntionals destroy Chelean water sources to get at gol under the glaciers -

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 No to Pascua Lama Open-cast mine


Socio-Politico-Environmental Message:

Dear friends who care about our earth & justice.

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 whol  e 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 th e 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 at 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 Go v ernment not to authorize the

Pascua Lama project to protect the whole of 3

glaciers , the purity of the water of the SanFelix

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)Belle Paterson, Leeds, UK

12) Claire Jenkins, Leeds, UK

13) Carlos Ch?vez, Leeds, UK

14)? Anita Howard, Leeds, UK

15) Tertia Montgomery, London, UK

16) Karen Boyle, Leeds, UK

17) Andrea Hamblett, Le ed s, UK

18) Samantha Hemingway, Gibraltar

19) Debbie Neiman, Brighton, Uk

20) Bob Poplett Brisbane Australia

21) Michael Berry, Brisbane Australia

22) Christie Cole, Dublin, Ireland

23) Melinda Rekdahl, Brisbane, Australia

24) Sarah Forder, Brisbane, Australia

25) Carolyn Forder, Brisbane, Australia

26) Todd Owen, Nelson, New Zealand

27) Dominic Szeker, Dunedin, New Zealand

28) Aleeza Stettner, Auckland, New Zealand

29)Elanor, Te Rapuora, Aotearoa

30)Julie, Te Rapuora, Aotearoa

31)Tristan Lockerbie, Aotearoa , New Zealand

32)Jonathon Acorn,Auckland,New Zealand

33)Christine Small, Ruby Bay, Nelson, New Zealand

34)Mark Fielding, Nelson, New Zealand

35) Paul Galloway, Nelson New Zealand

36) Nicola Galloway, Nelson, New Zealand

37) Leah Cronin, Wellington, New Zealand

38) Yvete McCann, Wokingham, England

39) Kate Morsley, Surrey, Eng lan d

40)  Misha Verkerk, Surrey, England

41) Susannah Nelson

42) Rosalind Nelson, Townsville, Australia

43)  Lyn Yaworsky, Mackay, QLD, AUSTRALIA

44)   Gillian Bayliss, Manchester, England

45) Nygel Harrot Lancaster

46) Heidi Leeming, Lancaster, England

47) Lucy Ronald, Cumbria

48) Elliott Ripley, Cumbria, UK

49) kenny doyle, australia.

50) Sarah Hankinson, Australia

51) Jen Smith, Australia

52) Barb Smith, Australia

53) Daiva Verbyla, Australia

54) Marian Rybalko, Australia
55) Genie Larew-Micheletto
56) Laurie MacKay, Canada
57. Sue Hennebury, Canada
58) Ruth Gamberg, Canada
   59) Herb Gamberg, Canada
60)  Joan Pinkham, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
61)  Lawrence Pinkham, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
62.) Joan Aragone, San Francisco, CA USA
63) Robert Bruce, California
64) Mike Patrick, Maui, HI. USA
65) W illa rd E. (Wil) Welsh, Kapaa, Kauai, Hawaii, USA
66)  Linda Maslowski, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA 
 67) Carolyn Miller, San Francisco, CA, USA
 68) Rebecca Mills, Berkeley, CA, USA
69) kalay Mordock, Ithaca, NY 14850




 				
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