What I have posted below is an e-mail that I received, concerning the possible posioning of 2 rivers that poor Chilean Farmers depend on to irrigate their small subsistence farms. Please take time to read the following and take action if you would like.
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 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 [email protected] 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.
Jun 9, 06 2:11 pm
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Poisoned waters for Chileans: Pascua Lama
What I have posted below is an e-mail that I received, concerning the possible posioning of 2 rivers that poor Chilean Farmers depend on to irrigate their small subsistence farms. Please take time to read the following and take action if you would like.
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 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 [email protected] 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.
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